PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 86 Washington : 1938 No. 3045 



HOPEWELLIAN REMAINS NEAR KANSAS CITY, 



MISSOURI 



By Waldo R. Wedel 



Early in February 1937, the Bureau of American Ethnology was 

 notified of an Indian village site in Platte County, Mo., about 5 

 miles northwest of Kansas City. The information was shortly 

 communicated to me, since at the time I was formulating plans for 

 field work in nearby northeastern Kansas as the initial step in a 

 projected State-wide archeological survey. According to the cor- 

 respondent, J. M. Shippee, of North Kansas City, the site was lo- 

 cated on Line Creek, a small formerly perennial stream falling into 

 the Missouri from the north about midway between Kansas City 

 and Parkville. Though long known to local collectors of surface 

 relics, its possibilities were not realized until recent pipe-line and 

 highway construction had revealed cultural material to a depth of 

 2 feet or more. Aside from the fact that no village sites in this 

 locality had ever been systematically excavated and described, it 

 was also noted that'on the wooded blufi's just east of the village 

 were located the Brenner, Klamm, and Keller mound groups. Ex- 

 cavated many years ago and described by Fowke and others,^ some 

 of these mounds have been found to contain stone-walled burial 

 chambers, but their cultural identity has never been established. 

 Upon request, sketches and descriptions of the pottery fragments 

 and other remains on the nearby village site were furnished us, and 

 it was at once suspected that the complex represented therein was 



* Fowke, (Jerard, Antiquities of centra) and southeastern Missouri. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 

 Bull. 37, pp. 65-73 and references, 1910. 



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