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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



[bull. 60 



A remarkable eaclie of ])rojectile jxjints has recently been discov- 

 ered in Delaware County, Okla., the number as last reported by 



Fig. 8G. Slij;btly notchi^d spi'ciuK'n, possibly used as a pick. (Unt'-half actual size.) 



Dr. Barnard reaching the very large total of 22,000. Those found 

 near the surface in the cache are of the material quarried in the 

 Ottawa County (juarries discovered by Dr. Barnard, while those at 

 lower depths are of the flint found in an old river bed near the cache. 

 In the vicinity of the village of Afton, a few miles to the southwest 

 of the Ottawa County quar- 



lies, a most 

 Tho Afton Cache interesting 



cache of 

 projectile points, knives, 

 blades, and other forms of 

 implements, nearly a thou- 

 sand in all, was obtained by 

 the writer from a sulphur 

 spring, where they had been 

 deposited, doubtless, as an 

 offering to the superior 

 powers. The chert is of 

 fine quality, white or of mottled bluish-grays, and may have been 



Fig. 87. Nucleus from which flake knives have 

 been struck. (One-half actual size.) 



