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Judging from the degrees of curvature of the fragments, the original vessels 

 were mostly globular, and would hold from one-half pint to one quart. I found 

 a very small vessel, containing powdered bone or lime ; it was globular in shape, 

 would hold about one gill, and was profusely ornamented. There are no deposits 

 of flint and other stone valuable for arrow-making, &c., in this vicinity. The 

 axes, celts, skin-dressers, and balls are all made of porphyry, and the arrow- 

 heads of flint. 



Sherds containing "pounded shells" have not been found recently 

 at the Jersey Creek site, and the allusion to "combinations of lines 

 and dots," though not wholly inapplicable to wares such as those 

 at Renner and Trowbridge, sounds suspiciously like a thumbnail de- 

 scription of Oneota pottery. Shippee and Trowbridge have since 

 sought verification of this location through county land records, and 

 Trowbridge finds (Shippee letter of Mar. 30, 1940) that J. L. Stockton 

 did own this particular tract at the time Serviss reported the site. 



In the communication cited above, Serviss further gives brief notice 

 of four mounds on a ridge near Edwardsville in southern Wyandotte 

 County. No trace of these was visible in the spring of 1938," but on 

 a small apparently umiamed creek 150 yards to the north and about a 

 quarter of a mile north of town, were found evidences of a small vil- 

 lage or camp site (fig. 1, site 4). This would be at or near "a very 

 large spring about 200 yards northeast. . . ." of the mounds. The site 

 is well sheltered, but portions of it are subject to overflow from the 

 stream at time of heavy rain. Roy Williamson, owner, who lives 

 across the road on the site of an old Delaware Indian mission, stated 

 that the Delawares formerly lived on these bottoms, which would prob- 

 ably account for the occasional finding of glass beads and other trade 

 articles. At the same time, I found thick cord-roughened and plain 

 grit-tempered sherds, part of a cross-hatched rim with punched bosses 

 on the exterior, lumps of burnt clay, and chipped flints of prehistoric 

 types. Among the latter was a long narrow leaf -shaped form with 

 squared base, similar to specimens that Shippee reports as common on 

 the bluffs along the Missouri in Clay County, Mo. Mr. Williamson 

 showed me a large collection of heavy-stemmed arrowpoints, chipped 

 knives and scrapers, and several %-grooved axes, which he had plowed 

 up on this flat. On the higher portions, moreover, there were several 

 dark circular spots, which I believe were refuse pits. The Delawares 

 may well have dwelt in this hollow, but I have no doubt they were 

 preceded in precontact times by a group closely related to the peoples 

 who lived at the Renner site. 



Another small camp seems to have been located at the Mussett site 

 (fig. 1, site 1), on the left bank of Plum Creek north of Leavenworth. 



'1 Three of these mounds were opened about 1896 by Barnum Brown, then a student at the 

 University of Kansas. Brown (personal comuiunication, February 24, 1940) states tliat tliey 

 were entirely of earth and stood to a height of about 6 feet. He believes they were certainly 

 artificial, but he found no trace of bones or artifacts in any of the elevations. 



