PREFATORY NOTE 
The explorations described in the accompanying report were made 
during the years 1906 and 1907 under the auspices of the Archzo- 
logical Institute of America, the funds necessary for carrying on the 
work being provided through the liberality of the gentlemen here 
named, members of the St. Louis Society of the Institute: William 
K. Bixby, D. I. Bushnell, Edward Mallinckrodt, J. M. Wulfing, Mur- 
ray Carleton, J. D. Bascom, Geo. O. Carpenter, Mrs. E. A. Howe, 
C. H. Huttig, J. D. Markham, James A. Waterworth, Mrs. C. D. 
Graham, Hugo Koehler, Mrs. I. W. Morton, Charles Nagel, Dr. 
W. F. Parks, Dr. H. M. Whelpley, and J. J. Cole. 
St. Louis, Missourt. 
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