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reference by the staff in correlating archeological materials with those 

 of known tribes. The Thwaites and Biddle editions of the Lewis and 

 Clark journals and the Ordway journal were the sources examined 

 for the desired information. A total of approximately 1,500 items 

 pertaining to tribal locations, contacts, material culture, and other 

 features were extracted from these journals. When this material has 

 been prepared for filing under tribal and subject-matter headings, it 

 probably will fill some 15,000 index cards. 



From April 4 to June 26 Mr. Bauxar was on special assignment to 

 the National Park Service for the purpose of conducting historical 

 investigations at the Homestead National Monument in Gage County, 

 Nebr. Five limited areas were examined, and a report on the excava- 

 tions was prepared and submitted to the National Park Service, 

 Eegion Two Office, at Omaha. Upon the completion of this detail 

 Mr. Bauxar returned to the Lincoln headquarters and resumed his 

 work on the ethnohistory project. 



On July 1 Wesley L. Bliss, archeologist, was working with the 

 field party under his direction at the Glendo Eeservoir project in 

 Platte County, Wyo. The survey of this area, started in the month of 

 June, was completed on July 2, and having located a total of 43 sites 

 the party moved the following day to Boysen Eeservoir, in Fremont 

 County, where further investigations were carried on until July 26. 

 During this period tests were made in Birdshead Cave in the Owl 

 Creek Mountains about 5 miles west of the dam site. This cave 

 showed six levels of occupation, and prospects for obtaining interest- 

 ing information about the aboriginal inhabitants of the area were so 

 promising that plans were made to return to it later in the season. 

 On July 27 the party moved to the Oregon Basin project in Park 

 County where it continued reconnaissance work, locating additional 

 sites which increased the total for the basin to 28, and did some test 

 digging in two rock shelters. August 11 it moved to the Canyon 

 Ferry Eeservoir near Helena, Mont. Investigations there added to 

 the number of sites located during the preliminary examination of 

 the area in 1946, making a total of 31. The work there was completed 

 on August 26, and attention was turned to the proposed Tiber Eeser- 

 voir near Shelby, Mont., where work continued until September 9. 

 During this period Mr. Bliss and his party spent 4 days traveling by 

 boat in order to locate and examine sites exposed along the river-cut 

 terraces. These sites could not be reached by land and were not 

 visited during the preliminary reconnaissance made the previous year. 

 Additional sites located bring the total for Tiber to 53. Leaving this 

 area, Mr. Bliss returned to the Boysen Eeservoir and from September 

 11 to November 6 completed excavation of the Birdshead Cave and 

 did some test digging in other sites. He returned to Lincoln on No- 

 vember 8 and from then until the end of the fiscal year was engaged 



