SEVENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 19 



coin on June 7. Also based in Pierre with the Smith party, this crew, 

 with the aid of heavy equipment, by the end of the year had exca- 

 vated approximately 89 burials from a new area at the Sully site 

 (39SL4) some 23 miles upriver from Pierre in Sully County. The 

 rising waters of the Oahe Reservoir were beginning to encroach upon 

 the site at that time. So far over 350 burials have been recovered 

 from this one protohistoric Arikara site. 



The eleventh Missouri Basin Project field party, directed by Dr. 

 Alfred W. Bowers, assisted by William B. Colvin and a crew of 

 10, left for the field on June 14. Based in Mobridge, S. Dak., this 

 party began excavating at the two adjacent sites, 39C014 and 39C034, 

 at the mouth of the Grand River in Carson County. These sites are 

 in the bank-slumping area of the Oahe Reservoir and were substi- 

 tuted for others that had become unavailable for excavation owing to 

 impoundment of Oahe Reservoir waters. By the end of the year tests 

 in middens, excavations of lodges, and samples of the fortification 

 system were progressing well. 



The twelfth field party, not scheduled to begin work until early in 

 the following fiscal year, was to go to the Big Bend Reservoir. 



The thirteenth Missouri Basin field party, directed by Lionel A. 

 Brown with a crew of five, left for the field on June 13, and after a tor- 

 tuous trip by pack train down Black Canyon into the Big Horn Can- 

 yon made camp at the confluence of the two canyons. The group 

 began excavation of site 24BH215, adjacent to the party camp, in the 

 bottom of the Big Horn Canyon some 6 miles upstream from the 

 location of the Yellowtail Dam, Big Horn County, Mont. The site 

 proved to be a large camping area and a few projectile points and pot- 

 sherds had been recovered by the end of the year. 



Party ISTo. 14 also left for the field on June 13. It consisted of Wil- 

 fred M. Husted with a crew of five. The party established camp near 

 the upper end of the Horseshoe Bend of the Big Horn River in Big 

 Horn County, Wyo., in the upper reaches of the Yellowtail Reser- 

 voir area. They tested one site and partially excavated another but 

 the terrain proved to be so rough that work without a boat was im- 

 practical. At the end of the year the men were making intensive foot 

 surveys of that end of the canyon. There were prospects of obtaining 

 a boat so that excavations could be resumed early in the coming fiscal 

 year. 



Party No. 15 left for the field on June 13 with Oscar L. Mallory in 

 charge of a crew of three. This group began an archeological survey 

 along the Missouri River between Fort Benton, Mont., and the upper 

 reaches of the Fort Peck Reservoir. This is known as the Missouri 

 Breaks area. Beginning near Fort Benton, the party had surveyed 

 some 20 miles of the area by the end of the fiscal year and had located 

 19 sites, mostly tipi sites and rock cairns. 



