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derived from quarries in the immediate region.^ This site was first 

 reported b}' Dr. R. H. Harper, of Afton, who generously turned over 

 to the Mui.eum a hirge number of specimens obtained from the spring- 

 deposit previous to the writer's arrivah The implements of this 

 deposit are of mottled tints, a bluish-gray prevailing. It is thus 

 apparent that they could not have come from the Peoria Reserva- 

 tion (Ottawa County) quarries a short distance to the northeast, but 

 were derived rather from other quarries in the vicinity, possibly from 

 certain so-called Spanish diggings reported to occur at Vanita and 

 at other points in the extensive region to the west in which the Per- 

 mian formations are exposed. 



Kansas 



Numerous reports of the occurrence of extensive workshops where 

 chert was obtained and worked up by the aborigines in the State 

 of Kansas have been submitted, but no well-marked quarries have 

 been noted. It is evident that the extensive areas of Permian strata 

 are rich in workable materials, and further exploration will doubt- 

 less bring to light the ancient diggings. Very full accounts of the 

 chert-uorking industry of the region identified as Quivira by J. V. 

 BroAver have been published by this enthusiastic explorer, and valu- 

 able collections of implements i)resenting exceptional features of 

 form have been made and preserved in our museums.^ 



* Holmes, Flint Implements, etc., from a Sulphur Spring at Afton, Ind. Ter. 



2 Brower, Memoirs of Exiiloratious in the Basin of the Mississippi, vols, i and ii. 



