AUTHOR'S NOTE. 



till thrfall (if ISSl, irliUc riif/ar/rd as iii4riirli)r in Bdliriiii/ Ariiilcnii/, 

 mill- Bcthdiiij Ci>Uri/c, lit Llii(l'<hnrff, A'"//x'(.s-, iiiii- nf iiii/ srjiiiliir-i nillnl 

 iin/ attention to mmc mound'i south of the Sinoki/ Hill rirer, where rarions an- 

 tiijiiities had hern 'pielced np ])i/ the settlers. I ri-tited the loealiti/ and xan- 

 that it (/arc promise of interesting finds of ahorii/inal relics. Here iras sonie- 

 tliinif worth takin;/ rare of. Dnrine/ the .whserpiient seven years I frerjnentlij 

 icent to the place, .sometimes- in company idth fellow tenchers and with .Htudents. 

 The contents and the structure of the mounds were noted and their locations 

 u-ere marked on a smrdl jilat of the land. In course of time a, collection of 

 relics accumulated. This is yet intact in the posse-?sion of the institution in. 

 whose -wvice I was then employed, and additions are still heiny made by my 

 successor Professor J. E. WeUn. 



At the Emporia meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science in 18S6 I made 

 a. brief report of my observations on these antiquities. But it iva-i impractic- 

 able at that time to present the details. It seems that these mounds and their 

 relics are of viore than passing interest and in a way are representative of the 

 archxology of the state. Before I parted irith the material \chich had been 

 secured up to 1889, I concluded to write an account of the collections then on 

 hand. This account has .serred as rt basis for the present paper. 



In preparing the following pages I have deliberately had two objects in view. 

 I have sought to present some brief and correct descriptions of a collection 

 strictly limited to one single locality. This is clone in the hope that the descrip- 

 tions together with the photographic reproductions presented in the figures and 

 plates may pyrove serviceable to science. The author is, hcnverer, no archseol- 

 ogist. This loill be his last as well as his first paper bearing on topics of this 

 kind, unless, perchance, he .should again finrl his residence in the front yard 

 of .some prehistoric domicile. I have also sought to write these few pages in 

 such a ivny that they may prove profitahle reading to such of the general public 

 as are interested in the study of Indian relics. It is believed that the material 

 lends itself to such a double purpose. 



