188 STONE IMPLEMENTS, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROUDFIT. 



lu gatberiug- these relics special care has been taken to preserve an 

 accurate record of each addition to the collection, so that, if it were 

 desired, every piece might be replaced in the very field from which it 

 was obtained; and in order that the record and catalogue may be better 

 understood and perpetuated, as against the ultimate result of the 

 growth of the city and continued cultivation of the fields, a map has 

 been prepared and is submitted herewith, whereon are marked the 

 various fields from which the collection was made. The map will also 

 serve to show the location of all Indian village sites and aboriginal 

 workshops in the District, and from what part of each contributing 

 village site the collection was gathered. Thus it will be seen by con- 

 sulting the map (Plate X,) that the eastern shore of the Anacostia, 

 or Eastern Branch of the Potomac, is dotted with wigwam-like marks 

 to Indicate a village site, while but three fields on the stream are 

 marked from which relics have been taken ; one at Anacostia marked 

 A, and two at Benuiugs marked B and C. The village is old Na- 

 cotchtanke, which stretched along the whole eastern shore from the 

 mouth of the stream up to Bladensburg. While many places along the 

 eastern shore of the Anacostia, are equally rich in relics as the three 

 indicated, the ease with which the latter are reached from the city ac- 

 counts for their marked prominence in this collection. 



Again, it will be noticed that a village site is laid down along the 

 eastern bank of the Potomac, from a short distance above Georgetown 

 to the Little Falls, while but two fields, D and E, are there marked as 

 having contributed to the collection. In this case the other fields 

 were not available to the collector, being either covered with a heavy 

 sod, or so closely cultivated that no room was left for the antiquarian. 

 A small village is marked on the Virginia shore of the Potomac, over- 

 looking (yhain Bridge and Little Falls ; another at the foot of Aualos- 

 tan Island, on the same side of the stream ; and still another a little 

 farther down, at the southern end of the Long Bridge (Namaraugh 

 quena) ; one at the mouth of Four Mile Run ; and one at Falls Church, 

 on the same stream. 



It should not be understood that any one of these sites or fields has 

 been exhausted by the collector. The ground covered by the village 

 sites has been but partially under search, and the search even where it 

 has extended has not been prosecuted closely enough to appreciably 

 diminish the amount of relics, except in the matter of large stone im- 

 plements, such as would strike the attention of those cultivating the 

 fields, and so find their own way into public and private collections. 

 In fact, the amount of material that may yet be gathered from these 

 village sites is only emphasized by the j^resent collection, which in 

 effect is substantially coufined to the fields at Bennings. 



With each plowing of the fields a fresh supply of relics is turned up 

 for the collector, and how long this will hold good may be indicated in 

 the following observation : The new bridge across the Anacostia at the 



