446 ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN THE UNITED STATES. 



EEmsCH, A. Explored two mounds on Walnut Eiver, in Cowley County, 

 Kansas. They are 30 rods apart, 30 feet in diameter, and at present 

 18 inches high. They were originally between 3 and 4 feet high. A 

 trench 3 feet wide was dug to the centre of one of them. Bones, pot- 

 sherds, charcoal, jasper chips, and arrow-points were found at a depth 

 of feet, or about 4 feet below the surface. Mr. Eeinsch also sends 

 drawings of implements, among them a hollowed grinding-stone of 

 whitish limestone. 



EoBiNSON, A. P. Sends a map of Cofley County, Kansas, on which are 

 marked the locations of antiquities. Along the summit of the bluff', 

 on Wolf Creek, many stone heaps are found, containing shells of unios, 

 such as now live in the ]S"eosho Eiver, which is at present a mile away. 

 At the foot of the bluff, by the cutting of the Missouri, Kansas and 

 Texas Eailroad, many arrow-heads were unearthed. By digging a 

 ditch, what was loossibly a cremation site was passed through, and a 

 few knives and arrow-heads were found. The ashes, &c., were from 

 4 to 5 feet below the surface, and over the sites were growing oaks 3 

 to 4 feet in diameter. In this locality many fragments of pottery 

 were discovered, but only a slight investigation was made. 



Shippen, Edvtard. Mentions a mound in Ballard County, Kentucky, 1 

 mile from the Ohio Eiver, from which he took 437 arrow-heads, 1 

 spear-point, 7 flint axes, 9 pipes, 24 vessels of clay, and many pottery 

 fragments. The letter is accompanied with drawings of implements. 



Spray, S. J. Eeports that the region around Marysville, Blount County, 

 Tennessee, is rich in relics of the Mound -Builders. 



Strong, Lorenzo. States that no mounds or earthworks occur near 

 Strongville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Stone implements are found 

 in abundance. 



Swan, James Ct. Sends to the ]N'ational Museum a carved seal club, 

 or tinethl, as it is called by the Makali Indians. This specimen was 

 made by a young Indian of the Clyoquot tribe, on the west coast of 

 Vancouver's Island, B. C. His name is Artlyu, or Benjamin. He is 

 a son of Cdakanini, a chief of the tribe, and a great grandson of 

 Wikananish, the great chief mentioned by Mears and other early 

 navigators. This young man was one of the party who saved the 

 captain and crew of the American bark General Cobb, wrecked off 

 Clyoquot last winter. A jihotograph of Artlyu was inclosed by Mr. 

 Swan, showing the club before it was painted, and a rattle in his right 

 hand, such as is used during the medicine dance. This club is very in- 

 teresting and very highly prized. It is not intended for use as a seal 

 club, but to be exhibited on ceremonial or state occasions, as an ensign 

 of the rank of the family. It rei^resents a dream of old Wikananish, 

 which was so strongly impressed on his mind that he related it as an 

 actual occurrence. It was believed by his family, and the legend has 

 been handed down to the present day. The story was related by Ben- 

 jamin, as follows : 



