282 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE TIMBERED MOUNDS OF THE KAW 
RESERVATION. 
BY C. N. GOULD, WINFIELD. 
Read before the Academy October 28, 1897. 
During the past year considerable study has been given to the ruins in the 
Kaw reservation and Cowley county, Kansas, concerning which a paper was read 
at the last meeting of the Academy. As was set forth in that paper, a number 
of flat-topped hills in the above-mentioned locality are covered with excavations 
and piles of loose stones, evidently quarried by human agency. 
Acting on the suggestion of Doctor Williston, a careful search was made for 
flint implements, with the result that more than 100 imperfect implements, or 
rejects, have been found. They vary in size from three to eight inches in length, 
and from one and one-half to four inches in breadth, and weigh from three ounces 
to one and one-half pounds. In shape they are usually oval and twice as long as 
broad, ends roundish or pointed, with usually a cutting edge chipped on all sides. 
They are nearly always broken, either laterally or longitudinally, but rarely diag- 
onally: very often a corner will be broken off. One or two specimens are nearly 
perfect and are probably completed implements that have been lost. 
The excavations are in some instances nearly filled up, but quite a number 
may be noticed that are a foot or more in depth. The piles of debris are from 
one to three feet high, and consist of irregular flakes of flint, round nodules, and 
broken fossiliferous limestone. 
The hills are situated at the extreme summit of the Flint Hills, and no more 
flint is to be found this side of the Rocky mountains. The localities may be 
conveniently grouped under two heads: First, the Kaw reservation, or the Tim- 
bered Mounds proper; and second, the Maple City locality. The first is south 
of Meyers creek and east of Little Beaver, in the Kaw reservation, from six to 
twelve miles nearly south of Maple City, Kan. It is here the quarries were first 
studied, and here most of the excavations seem to have been made; but singu- 
larly enough very few rejects have been found here. The second locality is in 
and around Maple City. Most of the rejects have been found on the farms of 
Mr. H. Ferguson and Mrs. Geo. Sutton. Some interesting localities are found 
three to four miles north of Maple City. 
The foundations of edifices mentioned in the last paper are still being studied, 
but it is now believed that they were quite local, and possibly temporary struc- 
tures for the convenience of the workmen. 
Nothing is more reasonable than to suppose that the tribes of the plains 
journeyed eastward until they arrived at the first flint that could be worked with 
ease, and here stopped and fashioned their implements. 
The descriptions of ‘‘An Ancient Quarry in Indian Territory,’ by William 
Henry Holmes, published as a bulletin of the American Bureau of Ethnology in 
1894, will, to a very large extent, apply to the quarries under consideration, ex- 
cept that the pits are not so deep as those described in the report. The rejects 
pictured in Mr. Holmes’s paper are very like those found at Maple City. 
