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burial methods problematical, 187. 

 cache pits in, 22. 

 chipped-stone artifacts, 50-57. 

 comparison with Hopewellian cul- 

 ture sites, 196-208. 

 probable connection with Illinois 



River Hopewellians, 220. 

 copper, 49. 

 excavations in, 19. 

 faunal remains, 26-28. 

 ground-stone artifacts, 57-60. 

 location and description, 15 ff. 

 moUuscan remains, 28. 

 pigment materials, 61. 

 pottery, 29-44. 

 resume of, 186. 

 shell work, 49. 



lack of skeletal remains, 245. 

 unworked and slightly worked 



stone, 60-61. 

 vegetal remains, 26. 

 Ritchie. W. A., cited, 196. 207. 

 Riveted vessel handles, 77. 

 Rocker-roughening on pottery, 32-34, 



36. 40. 

 Rock River, 111., mounds near, 170. 

 Rodents, tooth marks on bones, 246, 248, 



258. 

 Roulette, antler, for pottery decorating, 



41, 100. 

 Rubbing tools, antler, from Renner site, 

 44. 

 from Steed-Kisker site, 81. 

 Sac Indians, attacks on Osage and Mis- 

 souri, 10. 

 in northwestern Missouri, 11. 

 Salt Creek, Kans., stratification of cul- 

 tures, 216. 

 Sandstone, Dakota, use by aborigines, 

 58. 

 abraders, 60, 85. 



grooved tablet fragment, Steed- 

 Kisker site, 85. 

 Sante Fe Trail, 11. 

 Saw Mill mound at Cahokia, 210. 

 St. Helena. Nebr., remains from sites 



near, 195. 

 Schmitt, Karl, vii. 



Schrader site, Nebraska, Middle Missis- 

 sippi influence noted, 213. 

 Scrapers, chipped, 99. 103, 136, 145, 149, 

 164, 186, 189, 193-194, 211. 

 from Renner site, 53. 

 from Steed-Kisker site, 82. 

 Scrapers, stemmed, of stone, from Boone 

 County, Mo., 206. 

 from Goodall focus, 201. 

 from New York sites, 206. 

 from Renner site, 53, 160. 186. 

 Sea Breeze site. New York, 207. 

 Seip mound No. 1, Ohio, material from, 



202. 

 Septal apertures of humerus, in Hoi)e- 

 wellians, 259. 

 in Middle Mississippians, 261. 

 Serviss, E. F., cited, 101-102. 



Setzler, F. M., cited, viii, 202, 204, 217- 



218, 250. 

 Sex, of mound series skulls, 249, table 14. 

 of Steed-Kisker series skulls, 254, 

 table 17. 

 Shell beads, from Missouri mounds, 156, 



165-167, 170. 

 Shell mounds (see Alabama; Ken- 

 tucky). 

 Shell, scant use of, at Renner site, 29, 49. 

 Shell hoe, from Steed-Kisker site, 81, 

 Shell tempering, leaching of, 74. 

 Shepherd, J. C, mound owned by, 137, 

 Shepherd mound, near Smithville, Mo., 

 137, 190-191. 

 miscellaneous artifacts from, 143. 

 pottery from, 140. 

 rush matting with burials in, 139. 

 stone pipe from, 142. 

 Shetroue, H. C, cited, 150, 202-203, 21& 

 Shetrone, H. C, and Greenman, E. F., 



cited, 202. 

 Shippee, J. M., vii, 18, 32-33, 70, 77, 81, 

 85. 98, 102-104, 128, 130-133, 139, 143, 

 146-147, 149, 154, 156, ISO, 188, 190, 

 246. 

 Silver and copper bands on pottery ves- 

 sel, 161-162. 

 Simpson, A. M., cited, 209. 

 Sioux Indians, head height of, 263. 

 migrations of, 9. 

 shape of forehead in, 253. 

 stature of modern, 264. 

 Skarland. Ivar. cited, 253, 255. 

 Skeletal remains, from stone-chambered 



mounds, summarized, 182. 

 Slattery, Gates, vii. 

 Smith mounds, Missouri, 180. 

 Smithville, Mo., Shepherd mound near, 



137. 

 Smoky Hills, Kans., Dakota sandstone 



outcrops in, 58. 

 Snake Den, Henry County, Iowa, mound 



near, 170. 

 Spoon River (111.) focus, 212-213. 



comparison of skulls from, 257-258. 

 Squash (see Pumpkin). 

 Squier, E. G., and Davis, E. H., cited, 



202. 

 Stabler, Hugh, vii. 

 Staffelbach, J., prehistoric cremation 



furnace on farm of, 158. 

 Stature, in Hopewellians, 259-260. 

 in Middle Mississippians, 261. 

 of Plains tribes, 264. 

 Steed, C. A., viii, 63. 

 Steed-Kisker burial ground : 



burials, orderly arrangement of, 91. 

 burials, types of, 88-90. 

 comparison with Middle Mississippi 



culture burials, 212. 

 excavation methods, 87. 

 location and description, 87. 

 physical type of people, 189. 

 pottery, 95-97, 2ll. 

 relation to nearby village, site, 91. 

 shell {Busy con) artifact, 98. 



