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season.' This may have been the case to some extent, but the speci- 

 mens found in these hiding phices seldom have marks of use, and it is 

 more probable that they were the jiroperty either of persons living at 

 a distance or of an individual manufacturer iu some i>articular village, 

 being thus concealed for safe-keeping until there was a demand for 

 them or, ijerhaps, to await a convenient time for transportation. A 

 sedentary tribe would have no more reason for hiding this than any 

 other kind of property. 



The chipped implements known as spades are frequently found 

 buried in large numbers. Two caches were disclosed by high water in 



Fig. 169.— CbiiJped spade with pointed ends. 



Fig. 170.— Chipped spade with rounded ends. 



1884, near Caseyville, Kentucky, containing, respectively, 57 and 75 

 specimens from 6 to 13 inches long. 



The most common form is that having an oval or elliptical outline, 

 with the ends either coming to a point or rounded. Long use of those 

 having pointed ends would wear them off until they approached the 

 others in form; but so many of both patterns show no evidence of use 



' Fossil MeD, p. 12.5. 



