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at an Indian village site at Ridges Island, on the Delaware, in June, 

 1891. 1 



There was no reason for supposing that this cache of mine hidden 

 without sign of ceremony or mark of mound was anything but the 

 buried stock in trade of a blade chipper ready for nipping or flaking to 

 order on sale. 



But Dr. J. F. Snyder (see Archaeologist, March and April, 1895) found 

 a hoard of 6,199 ill- worked leaf-shaped blades of black hornstone aver- 



Fig. 11. 



TRACINGS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS MADE BY THE ANCIENT PEOPLE OP YUCATAN AND MEXICO, SHOW 

 ING HOW LARGE LEAF SHAPED STONE BLADES WERE SOMETIMES USED. 



(a) Codex Troano (Yucatan); (Z&amp;gt;) Codex Cortisianus (Yucatan); (c) Sculpture 

 Cortesianus, and(e) Codex Troano (Yt 



r&amp;gt;f St. Lu 



Cozumahualpa, Mexico; (&amp;lt;7) Codex 



aging 7 inches long by 4 wide, in a mound on the west Illinois river 

 bank opposite Indian creek, and I agree with him in supposing that 

 his discovery and mine represent two distinct kinds of blade deposits. 

 Dr. Snyder s hoard lay in small batches in a sand layer covered by a 

 clay layer then a hearth with cremated skeletons and trinkets, then 

 more clay, then a boxing of logs, and then 22 feet of clay, and it is 

 unreasonable to suppose that the deposit like my cache, was intended 

 to be dug up, worked down, or sold. His cache evidently pertained to 

 ceremony and religion, mine to daily use and trade, and the two classes 

 of cache should be kept distinct since it may modify our notion of the 

 material, the grain and the edge needed by the old blade worker, if we 

 learn that many blades were made in the first place not to use but to 

 bury under funeral fires in mounds. 



l l found a cache of 9 chert blades at Halls Island, on the Susquehanna, in June, 

 1892, and on the following July obtained a deposit of 107 argillite blades in Bucks 

 County, Pa., now in the University of Pennsylvania museum. 



