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Dav. NO. 29) CROW-FLIES-HIGH VILLAGE—MALOUF 141 
The flow, however, was too small for domestic use, but brush and grass 
grew around the bogs. Drinking and culinary water was obtained 
from the Missouri River itself. A stream of clear water, Antelope 
Creek, flowed toward the east about one-half mile south of the village. 
At the time Crow-Flies-High Village was occupied, the Missouri 
River flowed along a slightly different course than it did in 1952. 
What in later times was a lesser channel across the river from the site 
was once its main course. Before the river bottoms were inundated 
by Garrison Dam the main stream was rapidly eroding into the broad, 
low benchland and was a little closer to the site than it was formerly. 
Evidently the location of the village had been a favorite occupation 
ground in prehistoric times. A few chips of “Knife River flint,” 
and some lithic specimens of the same material were picked up on the 
surface of the ground, and one or two pieces came from screening the 
earth around a more recent cabin site. No pottery from either the 
prehistoric level, or the historical Hidatsa was found here. The 
Hidatsa had by this time discontinued pottery making. Bear-In-The- 
Water, or Adlai Stevenson, remembered that his grandmother had 
made it out of “gumbo clay,” rolled into balls. Children carried the 
clay balls from its source to the camp. Stones were collected, usually 
those which had been partially decomposed in fires in sweathouses, and 
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