Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . W^ 1. Long, rectangular house excavated at the Pretty Head site. Crewman is sitting in theremnant of a ditch that extended the length of the house. The floor of the house, exceptwhere disturbed by the ditch, was covered with a deposit of red ocher. River 2. Aerial view of the Potts Village, Oahe Reservoir, South Dakota. The Missouri River isin the background. At maximum pool elevation the Oahe Reservoir will be about 15feet above this site. The excavations outlined in the fortifie
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . W^ 1. Long, rectangular house excavated at the Pretty Head site. Crewman is sitting in theremnant of a ditch that extended the length of the house. The floor of the house, exceptwhere disturbed by the ditch, was covered with a deposit of red ocher. River 2. Aerial view of the Potts Village, Oahe Reservoir, South Dakota. The Missouri River isin the background. At maximum pool elevation the Oahe Reservoir will be about 15feet above this site. The excavations outlined in the fortified area indicate the houseStructure within it. River Basin Surveys. SEVENTY-NINTH ANNTJAL REPORT 15 areas and the house fill. Pottery was mainly of the Foreman types,but there was also much Over Focus pottei-y. Probably the culturalposition of the site is intermediate between the Monroe-Anderson Foci,where Foreman Ware is frequent, and the Over Focus. Nonceramicartifacts were not distinctive, but a fragment of copper and a longbone object resembling an arctic snow beater are notable. These twoobjects suggest trade with the north, and the architecture of thehouses is remarkably similar to certain examples reported for thenorthern Plateau. It seems suggestive that the Early Village peopleof the Plains may have cultural ties not hitherto recognized. The third Smi
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