EIGHTIETH ANNUAL REPORT 



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V. Hay den." He attended the ITtli annual meeting of the Mississippi 

 Valley Historical Association and took part in the historic sites com- 

 mittee meeting of that group. He addressed the Kansas City Ar- 

 cheological Society on "Historical Archeologj^ in the Missouri Basin" 

 on May 7, and on May 19 he gave an illustrated talk on "Historic 

 Buildings of Nebraska" at the Nebraska State Historical Society in 

 Lincoln. At the end of the year he was again in the field conducting 

 investigations of historic sites in the Big Bend Keservoir. 



Table 1. — Specimens processed, July 1, 196 2- June 30,1963 



Reservoir 



Number 

 of sites 



Catalog 

 numbers 

 assigned 



Number of 

 specimens 

 processed 



Big Bend __.. 



13 



24 

 10 

 13 



22 



4,354 

 178 



2,978 

 408 



1,749 



24, 196 



Missouri Breaks 



Oahe-_ 



390 



22, 400 



Pony Creek. _ _ 



1,775 



Yellowtail 



3,038 







Site totals. _ _ 



82 

 2 



9,667 

 11 



51, 799 



Collections not assigned site numbers 



24 







Overall collection totals _ _ 



84 



9,678 



51, 823 







As of June 30, 1963, the Missouri Basin Project had cataloged 

 1,391,219 specimens from 2,410 numbered sites and 60 collections not 

 assigned site numbers. 



Specimens restored : Five pottery vessels and six vessel sections. 



Specimens donated to the Missouri Basin Project for comparative use: 

 By tlie W. H. Over Museum, University of South Dakota, courtesy of Dr. Wesley 

 R. Hurt— 75 pot rim sherds collected from 39GR1 (Scalp Creek site), 39WW7 

 ( Swan Creek site), and 39WW303. These sherds respresent eight pottery wares, 

 namely: Akaska, Le Beau, Randall, Rygh, Scalp, Steamboat, Swan Creek, and 

 Talking Crow. 



Table 2. — Record material processed, July 1, 1962-June 30, 1963 



MISSOURI BASIN PROJECT 



Reflex copies of records 8,967 



Photographic negatives made 3,128 



Photographic prints made 13, 712 



Photographic prints mounted and filed 7, 660 



Transparencies mounted in glass 66 



Kodachrome pictures taken in lab 72 



Cartographic tracings and drawings 38 



Illustrations 27 



Lettering of plates 12 



Profiles drawn 92 



Plate layouts made for manuscripts „_ 18 



