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National Museum, was in charge of the program. He prepared gen- 

 eral plans and coordinated all phases of the work, making numerous 

 trips of inspection to the areas where surveys and excavations were in 

 progress and supervising the work at Lincoln. He returned to his 

 official station at Washington on October 31, but during the fall and 

 winter months made regular monthly trips to Lincoln to check on the 

 work being done at the field headquarters and laboratory and to assist, 

 through advice and discussion, in the preparation of the reports on 

 the summer's activities. He left Washington on May 26 for Lincoln 

 and on his arrival there resumed active direction of the program for 

 the field season. 



J. Joseph Bauxar, archeologist, was at Chamberlain, S. Dak., at 

 the beginning of the fiscal year with the party, under the direction 

 of Paul L. Cooper, which was engaged in making a preliminary 

 reconnaissance of the west side of the Missouri River in the Fort 

 Randall Reservoir area. During the continuance of this work 82 

 sites were visited, and data on about 20 others were obtained from local 

 people. On July 19 test digging was initiated in some of the more 

 promising sites. The period from July 19 to August 20 was devoted 

 to the examination of burials at the Wlieeler Bridge mound site. 

 These occurred in 2 low mounds. At one of these there were 12 bundle 

 burials, and at the other 2, or possibly 3, of the same type. Inasmuch 

 as there were no funerary offerings accompanying any of the burials 

 and the material in the mounds was scarce, there was nothing to 

 indicate possible cultural relationship for these remains. On August 

 20 Mr. Bauxar shifted his operations to the Pease Creek site where 

 he opened an exploratory trench through a large refuse mound. 

 Two definite occupation levels were noted there, and a large quantity 

 of cultural material was recovered. The specimens suggest affiliation 

 with either Upper Republican or prehistoric Arikara peoples. On 

 September 17 investigations were started at another site which gave 

 indications of a well-defined occupation level. Two trenches were 

 dug at that location. They revealed a well-defined occupation level 

 which extended below the plow zone. This work was completed on 

 October 6, and attention was then turned to the Oldham site where two 

 subsurface circular house floors were uncovered. These presumably 

 belong to a late occupation which apparently was Arikara. Some 

 slight evidence of an earlier Woodland occupation was also noted. 

 A preliminary examination of all the data collected from the various 

 sites investigated indicates a range of cultural types extending back 

 from late historic Yankton through what possibly was early Arikara 

 and even earlier Woodland. 



Mr. Bauxar returned to Lincoln on November 6 and from then 

 until April 4 was engaged in working up his material and in establish- 

 ing an ethnohistory file for the Missouri Basin to be used as a ready 



