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On March 28 Mr. Kivett returned to the Medicine Creek Keservoir 

 to begin an extensive excavation program. During the period March 

 29 to June 30, three village sites on or near the dam axis were excavated, 

 and digging was started at the remains of a fourth village a short 

 distance above the dam in the reservoir basin. This work included 

 the uncovering of 25 house floors, the recovery of 2 burials, and ex- 

 tensive excavations in midden areas associated with the house floors. 

 Power machinery, furnished by the Bureau of Keclamation, was used 

 primarily for removing the sterile overburden covering most of the 

 area, for the removal of refuse dirt, and for digging exploratory test 

 trenches. The bulk of the materials recovered appear to be attribut- 

 able to the Upper Eepublican aspect. At the close of the fiscal year 

 the work was continuing, with attention being directed toward a series 

 of small sites on the right bank of the reservoir basin approximately 

 1 mile above the dam axis. 



George Metcalf was appointed field assistant on September 25 and 

 proceeded immediately to the Medicine Creek Keservoir where he 

 joined Marvin F. Kivett in the excavation being conducted there. 

 He returned to Lincoln on November 9 and from then until March 

 28, when he again went to Medicine Creek, he devoted his time to 

 classifying, studying, and writing a technical paper on the specimens 

 collected during the field work. This report included not only the 

 material obtained by the Eiver Basin Surveys party, but also that 

 secured by a group from the Nebraska State Historical Society which 

 had excavated several house sites in the area during the summer. 

 Mr. Metcalf 's manuscript will be incorporated into the major report 

 on the Medicine Creek investigations. On June 30 he was in charge 

 of a portion of the work at Medicine Creek. 



J. M. Shippee, field assistant, was with the Bliss party from July 

 1 to November 8. After his return to Lincoln he devoted the time 

 in the laboratory to work on the specimens from Birdshead Cave, the 

 sorting and classifying of artifacts from other localities, and the prep^ 

 aration of maps. He left Lincoln on June 1 with the Hughes party 

 and was participating in the surveys at Angostura Eeservoir at the 

 end of the year. 



Dr. Theodore E. White, paleontologist, was occupied in paleontolog- 

 ical reconnaissance from July 1 to September 19. In the course of 

 this work he visited T reservoir areas in Nebraska, 23 in Wyoming, and 

 25 in Montana. This phase of his investigations was interrupted 

 from August 21 to September 11 while he dug the skull and several 

 vertebrae of a dinosaur from the Jurassic Morrison beds in the Middle 

 Fork Eeservoir area in northeastern Wyoming. Dr. White returned 

 to the Lincoln office on September 20 and spent the time until Octo- 

 ber 8 preparing preliminary reports on the reservoir projects exam- 

 ined during the summer. He then left for the Eocky Ford and Philip 



