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head or into a still larger leaf-shaped implement, which, perhaps, was 

 destined for agricultural purposes. Nothing whatsoever was found 

 in a finished condition and, indeed, specimens in the "turtle back" 

 stage were not numerous. The illustrations (Pis. XXXIV and 

 XXXV) present some of the more characteristic forms of the 

 rejectage, along with a few of the most highly differentiated and com- 

 pleted rejects. 



The pits are further characterized by the almost total absence of 

 small flakes, thus showing, as do the rejects, that only the roughest 

 sort of work was attempted in the immediate neighborhood of the 

 pits. Of large flakes, however, many interesting specimens were 

 collected, some of the best examples being shown on PI. XXXVI. 

 The smallest flake found measured 2^ inches in length, the largest 

 12 inches. 



MATERIAL FOUND ABOUT THE T1PI CIRCLES OR SHOP SITES. 



As the refuse about the pits is characterized by the largeness of 

 the rejects and chips, so the exact reverse is true of the material 

 which is found strewn about the ground near the stone tipi circles. 

 No work whatever seems to have been done on the small jasper and 

 chalcedony nodules about the pits, this being reserved for the shop 

 at the tipi. As a consequence a great deal of refuse is here found in 

 small rejects, usually of the leaf-shape pattern, small flakes and small 

 hammer-stones made from jasper or irregularly shaped unworkable 

 nodules. No single specimen of a finished arrowhead was encoun- 

 tered, nor was any reject discovered from which one could safely pre- 

 dict its destined final shape. The fragmentary and unsatisfactory 

 condition of this shop site refuse may readily be seen in PI. XXXVII, 

 where are reproduced some characteristic hammer-stones, rejects and 

 flakes. 



Worthy of notice, not so much from their connection with the 

 quarrying and chipping operations as from their great abundance, are 

 the small jasper and chalcedony scrapers, some of the better 

 examples of which are to be found on PI. XXXVIII. These were 

 found in surprising quantities, not only about the tipi circles near the 

 quarry but also in the vicinity of the circles on Lauk and Stein's ranch, 

 thirty miles away, and at the innumerable circles encountered on the 

 road between the ranch and the quarry, all of which show evidence 

 of having been shop sites. Jt is remarkable, however, that at none 

 of the shop sites between the ranch and the quarry did I find any 



