ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 89 
Leech Lake and Mille Lac, Minn., collecting additional 
specimens of plants used in treating the sick, and other data. 
In the spring of 1923 Mr. W. E. Myer, special archeologist, 
spent several months investigating archeological remains in 
central Tennessee. He visited the ancient mound group of 
the Banks Link farm on Duck River, in Humphreys County, 
Tenn., where was found the celebrated cache of fine, long 
flint blades and other flint objects now the pride of the collec- 
tion of the Missouri Historical Society. He made a map of 
this group and obtained additional information in regard to 
these masterpieces of the ancient flint chipper’s art. 
Through the active aid of several citizens of Lincoln 
County he was enabled to visit and study an important 
and hitherto undescribed mound group on Elk River, at 
the junction of Lincoln, Moore, and Franklin Counties. 
He also obtained the definite location of over 75 unrecorded 
sites on which ancient man had lived in Lincoln County. 
He explored a small burial mound and other vestiges of 
an ancient Indian village on the lands of Mr. L. W. Denny, 
Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tenn., where he found 
20 skeletons. There was evidence that two different tribes 
had occupied this site at separate times in the past, and the 
mound yielded a number of fine artifacts which throw light 
on the life of the people. 
Mr. Myer spent two months exploring the remains of a 
great prehistoric fortified Indian town in Cheatham County, 
Tenn., known as the Great Mound Group on account of 
its great central mound. With the assistance of Mr. Wilbur 
Nelson, State geologist of Tennessee, an excellent topo- 
graphical map was made, and through the repeated efforts 
of Lieut. Norman McEwen, of the 136th Air Squadron, 
Tennessee National Guard, some good airplane photographs 
of the mound on the Harpeth River, near Kingston Springs, 
were secured. 
These remains cover approximately 500 acres in two bends 
of the river. In one bend he found a bold projecting hill 
which had been artificially shaped from bottom to top. 
Three wide terraces had been formed along the side of this 
hill. The original rounded summit had been leveled until 
