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Objects of trade known from the literature, but absent in the excava- 

 tions include knives, kettles, firearms, gunpowder, bar lead, and bullet 

 molds. 



ARTIFACT FITS BY FEATURES 



A study was made of the various broken white object materials 

 which fitted together and of their sources in the different features. 

 This demonstrated contemporaneity between some features. These 

 are listed below : 



Cannon fragments: Features 3, 4, 15, 20, and 66. Clay-pipe frag- 

 ments : Features 3 and 8 ; 3 and 21 ; 7 and 15. Whetstone fragments : 

 Features 3 and 13. Dish fragments : Features 4 and 12. 



Feature 3, the log cabin area, is associated with Features 4, 8, 13, 15, 

 20, 21, and 66, on the basis of these demonstrated fits of broken artifacts. 

 Associated with each other are Features 4 and 12, and 7 and 15. 



OBJECTS OF NATIVE MANUFACTURE 



Permanent earth-lodge villages were absent in the immediate 

 vicinity, and the native artifacts found may represent objects which 

 were lost at temporary campsites, before, during, or after the site was 

 occupied by whites. Strictly native artifacts are: 



Two chipped-flint arrowpoints; three chipped-flint end scrapers; 

 two modified flakes ; a serrated metapodial fleshing tool ; a perforated 

 arrow-shaft wrench ; four grooved mauls ; rectangular chopping tools 

 of stone; hammerstones ; pottery; whetstones and abrading stones; 

 antler tines ; and a fleshing tool. 



Aside from the perforated arrow-shaft wrench and the arrow points, 

 each of these specimens was used in the preparation of hides and food, 

 and possibly are attributable to visits of Indians to the site for trade. 

 Contemporaneity of most of these artifacts and the post is certain, 

 since many of them were found in the storage pits within the palisade 

 enclosure. 



A study of the distribution of 45 "native" artifacts such as mauls, 

 cylindrical sandstone whetstones, and chipped-flint artifacts was made. 

 Eighteen items were found in F-3, the log-cabin area ; 7 in F-13, a 

 large pit ; 9 in F-66, the general area of the post ; 4 in F-15 ; 4 in F-20 ; 

 and one each in Features 6, 14, and 49. 



INFANT BURIAL 



The infant buried in Feature 52 may have been the child of one 

 of the employees at the site, since it is unlikely that one of the visiting 

 Indian groups would bury a child inside a white trading post. Most 

 probably it was the child of a post employee and his Indian wife. At 

 this period, no white women were located nearer than the Red River 



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