480 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 
taining points, all of which are of stone. The specimens are now packed away 
in à storage warehouse where they will remain until the new building is fin- 
ished oe з” 
Wilson describes! from the collection of the National Museum: a skull from 
an aboriginal cemetery in Henderson County, Ill., which bears in the left squa- 
mosa a stone point of the drill type; a pelvic bone pierced by a flint point, and 
the head of a femur, possibly human, with a flint point engaged in it, both 
from a cave near Bowling Green, Ky. 
The Army Medical Museum possesses a number of specimens.? A skull of 
a California Indian has a long, flint arrowhead embedded in the left orbit. 
Another from an Indian burial place in the same State has two stone points, 
one obsidian, the other porphyritic, in the right parietal bone. A lumbar 
vertebra penetrated by a small arrowpoint of white quartz is from an Indian 
mound in Dakota. In addition the Museum has several instances of human 
bones bearing arrowheads of iron. 
The Museum of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society has: 
an os innominatum pierced by an arrowhead of flint; a similar bone with an 
arrow- or spearhead of flint thrust into the joint cavity; a skull from a grave in 
Miami County, Ohio, with a flint point embedded in it; and a skull pierced with 
a bone arrow.’ 
Dr. C. L. Metz, referring to human bones bearing arrow- or lanceheads, 
found in the aboriginal cemetery at Madisonville, mentions: a skull with a part 
of a flint arrowhead in the occipital bone (evidently the one now in Peabody 
Museum); the first and second lumbar vertebræ of a skeleton, penetrated by a 
triangular flint point; a rib transfixed by a similar point. 
In the Museum of Anthropology, University of California, is a femur with a 
piece of an obsidian arrowhead embedded in the greater trochanter, from a shell- 
mound at Ellis Landing, Contra Costa County, Cal.: 
MOUNDS ON THE ÁNNIS PLACE, BUTLER COUNTY. 
On the property of Mr. W. T. Annis, who resides upon it, is the largest 
mound seen or heard of by us on Green river. This mound, of sandy loam, 
approximately square with corners rounded by time, has a flat summit-plateau, 
is 11 feet in height and about 110 feet in diameter of base. It stands immedi- 
ately on the river bank. 
A central hole, 12 feet square, reached a well-defined dark line in the soil 
at a depth of 6 feet 10 inches, on which was a fireplace—no doubt marking a 
period of occupancy. Twelve feet down the excavation came upon a distinct 
base of dark soil resting on undisturbed, yellow sand throughout, no grave 
1 Thomas Wilson, “ Arrow Wounds,” American Anthropologist, N. S., vol. III, p. 513 et seq. 
? Summary kindly furnished by Lieut. Col. C. C. MeCulloch, curator of the Army Medical Mu- 
seum. Interesting descriptions of most of these specimens are given in Wilson's paper. | 
3 William C. Mills, M.Sc., curator, in letter. 
t Dr. E. W. Gifford, in letter. 
