974 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



TENNESSEE. 



Carter Coitnty. — .Tohn W. Emmert, ol" Jhistol, Teunessoo, reported May 4, 1892, 

 a cache of leaf-shaped iinpleuients of (luartzite from the bank of the Watauga 

 River, Carter County, northwestern Tennessee, consisted of 18 pieces 6| to 9 inches in 

 length, 3 to 3i inches in width, and | to | of an inch in thickness. They were buried 

 2 feet below the surface, laid on the Hat side, and arranged in a circle with the points 

 to the center, the cache being about 2 feet in diameter. The hole in which they 

 were deposited was dug through the soil and into the hard yellow clay. Nothing 

 was found associated with them, although there was an aboriginal cemetery in 

 the neighborhood. (Deposited by T. W., Cat. No. 150195, U. S. N. M.) 



ARKANSAS. 



I Mate ()1 represents 5 specimens out of a cache of 14, found on the banks of the 

 Little Missouri River, Arkansas. They were deposited together, the edges over- 

 lapping, in a layer of hard yellow clay, on the terrace hillside back from the river 

 bank, and were uuassociated with other objects. They are of milk-white chalce- 

 d(my, and are from 11 inches in length down. They are classified as Division III, 

 Class C, stemmed, shouldered, and barbed. (Deposited by T. W., Cat. No. 150196, 

 U.S.N.M.) 



MISSOURI. 



Near St. Louis. — "There are also a few cache finds, notably those large spades from 

 12 to 18 inches in length. We have a number of other cache finds, not so large in 

 size, but equally fine in wiukmanship. * * * 'j'lj^ spades and hoes come from 

 near St. Louis, and are usually found in the vicinity of mounds. They comprise all 

 the known forms, and many are polished on one end, which is probably caused by 

 digging in the earth.'' (The Missouri Historical Society exhibit of St. Louis at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, under the direction of William J. 

 Seever.) 



Chariton County. — "Mr. .John P. Jones, of Keytesville, Chariton County, Missouri, 

 communicated to me some particulars of three deposits of flint implements brought 

 to light in the neighborhood of his home. The first was a store of spearheads and 

 arrowpoiuts, several hundreds in number, which he was too late to secure or satis- 

 factorily examine. The weapons were all new, a fact conclusive that here had been 

 the arsenal of a tribe or the secreted stock in trade of another primitive American 

 merchant." 



Better fortune attended Mr. .Jones in the discovery of a second deposit, consisting 

 of 17 new flint knives, as the greater number of them fell into his possession. 



A third deposit described by Mr. Jones was discovered in the valley or "second 

 bottom" of Chariton River, and contained about 50 small, flat, ovoid, pointed flints. 

 "They had been stuck into the ground, point down, in concentric circles, aud were 

 then covered with earth, forming over them a low, flat mound 12 or 18 inches in 

 height by 5 or 6 feet in diameter. * * • Some were gapped on the edges, aud all 

 were to a certain extent polished."' 



OHIO. 



Hoss County. — Messrs. Squier and Davis,- during their survey of the earthworks 

 of Ohio, o])ened a broad but low mound of "Clark's Works," in Ross County, of 

 that State. They made an excavation 6 feet long and 4 feet wide, from which 

 they took about GOO specimens of flint disks, en cache, placed in two layers edge- 

 wise. The deposit extended beyond the limits of their excavation on every side, 

 and hence the actual number of specimens was not ascertained by them. The imple- 

 ments are described as ovoid or roundish, or terminating in a blunt point at one 



' J. P. Jones, J. F. Snyder, Smithsonian Report, 1876, p. 435. 



- Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, pp. 158-214, pi. x. 



