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are associated with burials in mounds, 1 )ut 

 in some cases they seem mereh' to have 

 been buried in the ground or hidden 

 among rocks. The largest deposit re- 

 corded contained upward of 8,000 flint 

 disks (^Nloorehead) , a few exceed 5,000, 

 .while those containing 

 a smaller number are 

 very numerous. It is 

 probable that many of 

 these caches of flaked 

 stones are accumula- 

 tions of incipient im- 

 plements roughed out 

 at the quarries and car- 

 ried away for further 

 specialization and use. 

 But their occurrence 

 with burials, the uni- 

 formity of their shape, and the absence of 

 more than the mostmeager traces of their 

 utilization as implements or for the maki ng 

 of implements, give rise to the conjecture 

 thatthey were assembled and deposited for 

 reasons dictated by superstition, that they 

 were intended as memorials of important 

 events, as monuments to departed chief- 

 tains, as provision for requirements in the 

 future world, or as offerings to the mys- 

 terious powers or gods requiring this par- 

 ticular kind of sacrifice. If in the nature 

 of a sacrifice thev certainlv fulfilled all re- 



DiscoiDAL Flint Blade From 

 A Cache of no specimens; 



[LLINOIS. (i-e) 



CACHE OF LANCEOLATE FLINT BLADES 



quirements, for only those familiar with 

 such work can know the vast labor in- 

 volved in quarrying the stone from the 

 massive strata, in shaping the refractory 

 material, and in transporting the prod- 

 uct to far distant points. In the Hope- 

 well mound in Ohio large numbers 

 of beautiful blades of obsidian, ob- 

 tained i^robably from Mexico, had been 

 cast upon a sacrificial altar and partially 

 destroyed ]jy the great heat; usually, 

 however, the deposits do not seem to 

 have been subjected to the altar fires. 

 See Mines and Quarries, Prohlexiatical ob- 

 jects, Stone-vork. 



Consult Holmes in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 

 1897; Moorehead (1) Primitive Man in 

 Ohio, pp. 190, 192, 1892, (2) in The Anti- 

 quarian, I, 158, 1897; Seever, ibid., 142; 

 Smith, ibid., 30; Snvder ( 1 ) in Smithson. 

 Rep 1876, 1877, (2)' in Proc. A. A. A. S., 



XLii, 1894, (3) in The Archa?ologist, i, no. 

 10, 1893, (4) ibid., iii, pp. 109-113, 1895; 

 Squier and Davis in Smithson. Cont., i, 

 1848; Wilson in Nat. Mus. Rep. 1897, 

 1899; and various brief notices in the 

 archeological journals. (w. ii. n.) 



Caches. — See Receptacles, Storage and 

 CacJies. 



Cachopostales. Mentioned by Orozco y 

 Berra (Geog., 304, 1864), from a manu- 

 script source, as a tribe living near the 

 Pampoim who resided on Nueces r. , Tex. 

 Thev were possibly Coahuiltecan. 

 Caohapostate.— PoweH'in 7tli Rep. B. A. E.. 69, 1891. 



Caddehi ('head of the reedy place'). 

 A rancheria, probably Cochimi, connected 

 with Purisima (Cadegomo) mission, 

 Lower California, in the 18th centurv. — 

 Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., v, 190, 1857. 



Caddo ( contracted from Kd^doliadiVcho, 

 'Caddo proper,' 'real Caddo,' a leading 

 tribe in the Caddo confederacy, extended 

 by the whites to include the confederacy ) . 

 A confederacy of tribes belonging to the 

 southern group of the Caddoan linguistic 

 family. Their own name is Hasinai, 

 'our own folk.' See Kadohadacho. 



History. — According to tribal traditions 

 the lower Red r. of Louisiana was the 

 early home of the Caddo, from which 

 they spread to the n., w., and s. Several 

 of the lakes and streams connected with 

 this river bear Caddo names, as do 

 some of the counties and some of the 

 towns which cover ancient village sites. 

 Cabeza de Vaca and his companions in 

 1535-36 traversed a portion of the terri- 

 tory occupied by the Caddo, and De 

 Soto's expedition encounterefl some of 

 the tribes of the confederacy in 1540-41, 

 but tlie people did not become known 

 until they were met by La Salle and his 

 followers in 1687. At that time the 

 Caddo villages were scattered along Red 

 r. and its tributaries in what are now 

 Louisiana and Arkansas, and also on the 

 banks of the Sabine, Neches, Trinity, 

 Brazos, and Colorado rs. in e. Texas. 

 The Caddo were not the only occupants 

 of this wide territory ; other confederacies 

 belonging to the same linguistic family 

 also resided there. There were also frag- 

 ments of still older confederacies of the 

 same family, some of which still main- 

 tained their separate existence, while 

 others had joined the then powerful 

 Hasinai. These various tribes and con- 

 federacies were alternately allies and 

 enemies of the Caddo. The native pop- 

 ulation was so divided that at no time 

 could it successfully resist the intruding 

 white race. At an early date the Caddo 

 ol)tained horses from the Spaniards 

 through intermediate tribes; they learned 

 to rear these animals, and traded with 

 them as far n. as Illinois r. (Shea, Cath. 

 Ch. in Col. Days, 559, 1855). 



