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occur as fur north as Cobden, Union County, and Sellers states that 

 concretions, which from his description must be closely identical in 



Fig. 



Mauner of ii«ing the antler hammer, imhafted. 



character, were employed by the tribes of the valley of the Saline 

 far to the east.^ 



y-Ast numbers of ilint blades, of the type produced in the INIill 

 Creek quarry shops, polished by long use in digging, bear ample 

 testimony to the great importance of agi'iculture among the tribes 



Fig. 76. Manner of using the antler hammi r, hafted. 



of the middle Mississippi Valley. Many hundreds of choice highly 

 polished specimens are preserved in the collections of Dr. II. ]\I. 

 Whelpley, of St. Louis. 



1 Sellers, Observations on Stone-chipping, p. 881. 



