ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVES. 9fi7 



gatioii by INIr. Fi;uik Rutley on "The oiij^iu of cevtaiu novaculites and 

 quartzites." 



Clark County. — Aboiiginal workshop in section 17, townsliip ."> south, range 2:5 west, 

 from which arrowpoints and cutting iniplemonts, the latter hatchet-shaped and made 

 of a species of iron ore, have been taken. 



"On section 9, township 3 south, range 24 west, is an outcrop of novacnlite or 

 Hint of tough (|Uality and of various colors. From this material large quantities of 

 iirrowheads, etc., have been made. The ancient artisans went down on the south 

 side of the outcrop, which is a ledge 700 or 800 feet above the adjacent valley, and 

 carried away immense quantities. The material i.s the same as that of arrowheads 

 from Tennessee, Mississippi, and westward. 



"There is on C'apt. R. S. Burk's farm, section 17, township .5 south, range 23 west, 

 evidence of an extensive workshop in arrowpoiuts and cutting implements. The 

 arrow material was taken from theiiuarry above described, although 10 miles away. 

 The cutting instruments w^ere of the hatchet kind and made from a sjiecies of iron ore. 

 There is another workshop near my home, section 7, township 4 south, range 24 west, 

 Montgomery County, Arkansas."' 



WISCONSIN. 



Kenosha Counly. — Lapham - says : "At the city of Kenosha we found, on the ancient 

 sandy beach upon which the city is partly built, abundant evidence of a former manu- 

 factory of arrowpoints and other articles of tlint. Several entire specimens were 

 collected in a little search, besides numerous fragments that appear to have been 

 spoiled in chipping them into form. * * * Many different kinds of flint, or chert, 

 were wrought at the place, as shown by the fragments. It is probable that the peb- 

 les and bowlders along the Lake shore furnished the material. * * * These pebbles 

 are the corniferous rock of Eaton and here constitute a portion of the drift, being 

 a.ssociated with the tough blue clay that underlies the sand and is the basis of the 

 country around. The clay is carried away by the dashing waves, leaving a beach 

 of clean pebbles. Numerous fragments of pottery of the usual form and composition 

 were also found in the same saudy places." 



INDIAN TERRITORY. 



An extensive novacnlite quarry was discovered and reported to the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey by Mr. Walter P. Jenney, which he says was known as the "Old Spanish 

 mines." This report, made in 1891, resulted in the visit of Dr. W. H. Holmes 

 to the locality for the purpose of investigation and study. " The quarry is situated 

 on the Peoria Reservation, about 7 miles northwest of Seneca, ^[issouri, and some 

 10 miles southeast of Bdxter Springs, Kansas. From Seneca the spot is reached 

 by driving northward along the Missouri border for 5 miles and then crossing the 

 line and proceeding 2 miles in a westerly course through the forest. The country is 

 a gently rolling plateau, with a gradual descent westward into the valley of Spring 

 River, a branch of the Neosho or Orand River, which falls into the Arkansas at Fort 

 Gibson, Indian Territory." 



Dr. Holmes's investigations were published in a bulletin of the Bureau of I'th- 

 uology, entitled "An ancient quarry in Indian Territory," 1894. Dr. George A. 

 Dorsey visited this quarry in 1899.' 



WYOMING. 



Central-eastern Jfyoming. — Quartzite quarry in central-eastern Wyoming, 40 or 50 

 miles east of Badger, on the Cheyenne and Northern Railroad, 125 miles north of 

 Cheyenne. Nineteen ancient diggings were cleaned out and the whole quarry inves- 



' A. Jones, Smithsonian Report, 1881, p. 542. 



2 Anticinities of Wisconsin, p. 6. 



•■' Report, Field Columbian Museum, June, 1899. 



