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On May 4-5 he attended and participated in the annual meeting of 

 the Central States Anthropoligical Society in St. Louis. At the 

 end of the year he was again in the field conducting archeological 

 excavations. 



G. Hubert Smith, archeologist, was on duty at the first of the year 

 in the Lincoln office continuing work on the comprehensive report of 

 investigations at the site of Like-a-Fishhook Village and Fort Berth- 

 old I and II (32ML2) , in the Garrison Keservoir, North Dakota. He 

 devoted most of his efforts during the year to this report and had 

 completed most of a first draft of it by the end of the year. During 

 the period July 21-29 he accompanied the chief on a trip to Montana 

 and Wyoming, particularly to consult with Bureau of Keclamation 

 officials in regard to the salvage and preservation of Fort C. F. Smith 

 at the mouth of the Big Horn Canyon in Montana, near the construc- 

 tion area of the Yellowtail Dam. He attended the 19th Plains Con- 

 ference for Archeology at Lawton, Okla., on Thanksgiving weekend 

 and served as chairman of a session on "Historic Sites Archeology and 

 Ethnography." On April 13 he attended the annual meeting of the 

 Nebraska Academy of Sciences in Lincoln and participated in a sym- 

 posium on "Eesearch Methods in Ethnohistory." On May 5 he at- 

 tended and participated in the annual meeting of the National Trust 

 for Historic Preservation held in Omaha, Nebr. Throughout the year 

 he served as chairman of the historic documentation section of the 

 Missouri Basin Chronology Program and as a member of the edi- 

 torial board of the Plains Anthropologist. 



During the period of May 15-20 he was in the field visiting the Fort 

 Sully site in the Oahe Eeservoir area of central South Dakota and 

 making an archeological survey of the Arcadia Reservoir area in 

 central Nebraska. On June 12 he returned to the field where he was 

 again conducting excavations in the Big Bend Eeservoir area at the 

 end of the year. 



Table 1. — Specimens processed, July 1, 1961-June SO, 1962 



Reservoir 



Number 

 of sites 



Catalog 

 numbers 

 assigned 



Number of 

 specimens 

 processed 



Arcadia, 



1 

 9 

 1 

 1 

 9 

 5 



5 



2,435 



5 



4 



1,971 



325 



29 



Big Bend 



64, 892 



Fort Randall 



8 



Lewis and Clark _ 



20 



Oahe 



17, 457 



Sites not in a reservoir area, 



1.274 







Total .. __ 



26 



4,745 



83, 680 







