92 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 37 
dated Nov. 22nd, 1719, containing a narrative of his voyage to the village of the Mis- 
souris by the river of that name. One league from this village, in the southwest, is a 
village of the Osages * * * .” 
Jones adds in a footnote: 
This town was located near the present town of Miami, Saline Co., Mo. A descrip- 
tion @ of an ancient earthwork near the site of this village appeared in the Review for 
April, 1878. 
But if the Osage occupied this spot, manufactured the pottery 
found here, and utilized bones, especially those of the buffalo, to so 
ereat an extent in making implements, then the grave-vaults certainly 
are not to be attributed to them; for the art objects found in these are 
so widely different in shape, finish, and material as to offer almost 
positive proof that they must represent the industry of a people 
belonging on another plane of culture and governed by very different 
motives and ideas. 
Probably Dutisme referred to the Osage village near Grand Pass 
or to some other whose location is not recorded. His ‘‘one league”’ 
may have denoted a distance quite indefinite. 
ARROW ROCK (19) 
In Saline county, Missouri, on the Missouri river, between Boonville 
and Glasgow, is the town of Arrow Rock, which takes its name from 
the cliff against whose foot the river flows. An impression exists 
among archeologists that the name was given because here was the 
site of an aboriginal flint quarry or workshop. In a footnote to his 
edition of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (vol. 1, p. 18) Coues makes 
the statement, without citing authority or giving his reasons for it, 
that ‘‘the rock was so called from being resorted to by Indians for 
stone arrow-heads.’’ The impression as to the origin of the name, 
however, much antedates the appearance of this publication. In 
Thwaites’s edition of Lewis and Clark (vol. 1, p. 44) the exact wording 
as 1t appears in their manuscript is thus: “‘ * * * Several Small 
Channels running out of the River below a Bluff [Cliff of rocks called 
the arrow rock] * * * ’’, the bracketed remark being intercalated, 
whether by the original authors or by some one else does not appear. 
If there had been any foundation for the prevalent belief, these early 
explorers would surely have referred to it, for they record that— 
a Short distance above the mouth of this Creek [7. e., Big Moniteau, on the south side, 
between Boonville and Jefferson City], is Several Courious paintings and carving on the 
projecting rock of Limestone inlade with white red & blue flint, of a verry good quallity, 
the Indians have taken of this flint great quantities. 
There is no trace of aboriginal quarrying in the vicinity of Arrow 
Rock, nor any place where it would have been practicable. The 
a See excerpt from Broadhead, p. 83. : 
