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subsequent findings and observations locally. To Mr. Shippee and to 

 his family goes much of the credit for making our stay personally 

 pleasant as well as scientifically successful. 



Numerous other individuals and concerns contributed in various 

 ways to success of the work in the field. I am particularly grateful 

 to the following : Mr. and Mrs, Leslie Renner, of Parkville, Mo., for 

 freely permitting excavation on their property and for other cour- 

 tesies; Ealph Henneman, formerly of North Kansas City, for guid- 

 ing us to a number of other sites and for arranging an aerial recon- 

 naissance; Transcontinental & Western Air and Bureau of Air 

 Commerce officials at Kansas City for cooperation in securing aerial 

 photographs; O. Pearl, Charles and Mrs. C. W. Babcock, Ray Nolan, 

 Henry Wehe, C. A. Steed, Herman Kisker, W. W. Young, and Great 

 Lakes Pipeline Co. officials at Kansas City, for permission to exca- 

 vate on owned or leased properties; H. M. Trowbridge, of Bethel, 

 Kans., for voluntary assistance in excavation and for making avail- 

 able information on related remains in Wyandotte County, Kans.; 

 A. H. Hansen, of Kansas City, for loan of pottery vessels and skeletal 

 materials and for presentation of other restorable specimens dug 

 from mounds later worked by us, and H. M. Kleifeld, superintendent 

 of highway construction, for presenting to us various archeological 

 objects uncovered during road-building operations. 



The helpful interest of other parties not named above but who 

 were instrumental in facilitating our field investigations is hereby 

 acknowledged. 



For criticisms and suggestions as this report progressed, I am in- 

 debted to F. M. Setzler and Dr. T. D. Stewart, of the National Museum, 

 and to Henry B. Collins, Jr., of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 Identification of various biological and geological specimens was made 

 by the following members of the National Museum staff: Dr. Alex- 

 ander Wetmore, bird remains; Dr. Remington Kellogg, mammalian 

 bones; Dr. Doris M, Cochran, reptile bones; Dr. J. P. E. Morrison, 

 mollusks; C. V. Morton, plant remains; and E. P. Henderson, min- 

 erals. Dr. Volney H. Jones, of the Ethnobotanical Laboratory, Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, identified plant materials from the Steed-Kisker 

 site. 



R. G. Paine, aide in the division of archeology, drew figures 1, 4, 5, 

 6, 10, 17, 18, and 20, besides revising from field copies the maps and 

 diagrams shown as figures 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 19. 



Waldo R. Wedel. 



May 15, 194£. 



