CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Frontispiece 12 



Contents 5 



Aiitlior"s note 7 



Introductory 9 



The Paint Creek dwelling sites 12 



Stkuctcre of the mounds 14 



Animal bones '6 



Articles made from bone and sheli 17 



Hoes 17 



Gouges 17 



Notched bone 17 



Flakers IS 



Hairpins? 19 



Beads 19 



Spoons of shell 19 



Pottery 23 



Forms and kinds of vessels 23 



Methods of fastening the handles 27 



Ornamentation 28 



Articles made of chert 31 



Scrapers 31 



Irregular forms of scrapers 34 



Flint knives 3'.l 



Arrowpoiuts 40 



Spearlieads 41 



Awls 4G 



Drills 47 



Leaf-flints and tomahawks 47 



Hand hammers 49 



Articles made from sandstone 50 



Grindstones 50 



Arrow-smootheners 53 



Cupped stones 56 



Catlinite pipes 57 



Articles made from various materials 59 



Stone mallets 5i> 



Throwing-stones? 64 



^ A problematic relic 65 



A piece of an old armor 66 



Probable characteristics of the tribe 68 



Inventory of the village relics 6!) 



Ethnic relationship 71 



a visit from the spaniards? 73 



Index : , ,.... 7?l 



