98 BULLETIN 183, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



OTHER ARTIFACTS 



Aside from pottery, three chipped flints and a shell object were 

 recovered. A small knife (pi. 32, j) of gray -banded chert, measuring 

 60 by 20 mm., has retouched edges beveled from one surface. Two 

 small arrowpoints were associated with burial 1 in square 55E1, 

 along with several typical potsherds. The larger, of NBa3 type, is 28 

 by 10 mm. ; the smaller, NBbl, is 20 by 11 mm. Both are shown in 

 plate 32, ^. Near the center of square 50E3, between skulls 72 and 73, 

 was found a short pin-shaped object of shell, 25 mm. long with a maxi- 

 mum head diameter of 20 mm. This was fashioned from the upper 

 end of the columella of a small Busy con perversum (Lea), a marine 

 shell native to the Gulf coast. Aside from the fact that the piece 

 has been worked there is nothing to indicate the manner in which it 

 was used. 



OTHER VILLAGE SITES 



During the four months spent in actual field work in Platte and 

 Clay Counties insufficient time was available for a thorough survey 

 of the village and burial sites with which the Kansas City area evi- 

 dently abounds. The reports of many visitors to our diggings, as 

 well as conversations with various nonprofessional collectors, clearly 

 indicate that an intensive and sustained reconnaissance would be emi- 

 nently worth while. Our own investigations brought to light the 

 remains of at least two distinct cultural manifestations, and further 

 research, in addition to much needed supplementary information on 

 these, would in all probability reveal vestiges of other divergent 

 archeological complexes. Since the present paper makes no attempt 

 at a complete reconstruction or at anything more than a partial out- 

 line of local prehistory, the remarks that follow will relate only to 

 sites at which, to judge from surface examination, remains similar to 

 those under consideration may be expected. The exact location of 

 each is on record in the United States National Museum, but pending 

 the time when a responsible investigator can undertake proper sys- 

 tematic excavations, it has been deemed inadvisable to indicate the 

 situation of the larger and more promising ones on the key map in 

 this report. The writer is indebted, among others, particularly to 

 J. M. Shippee, Ralph Henneman, and H. M. Trowbridge for invalu- 

 able assistance in the examination of these sites. 



Five or 6 miles west of the Kenner site, on a small unnamed creek 

 about a mile south of the Missouri River, Mr. Trowbridge has been 

 exploring a village site that yields remains closely similar to those 

 found by us at the mouth of Line Creek. Situated on a small well- 

 drained and sheltered terrace, the site covers 3 or 4 acres. The arti- 

 fact-bearing stratum, 12-18 inches thick and very dark in color, is 



