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The Saginaw Valley Collection 



early as 1859 in the State geological reports as being material 

 used by the Indians of the region for their pipes. It is possible 

 that this pipe was made of similar material which was brought 

 down the Cass by canoe, that being the most natural way; an idea 

 which is strengthened by the fact that the early pioneers depended 

 on the canoe, at first, for transportation along the same route. 



Ka-pay-shaw-wink Village Site. — This is a large village 

 site on the east bank of the Saginaw river, just below the junc- 

 tion of the Tittabawassee and 

 Shiawassee rivers. The ar- 

 chaeological evidence found 

 at this locality coincides with 

 the Ojibwa traditions, which 

 state that in ancient times a 

 great villageof the Sac Indians 

 was located here. A cache 

 consisting of fifty-nine blades 

 was found about a foot below 

 the surface at this spot. The 

 implements found in it are 

 leaf-shaped, average about 

 one and one-fourth inches in 

 length and are of chert. One 

 of the blades had been special- 

 ized by notching at the base. 

 This cache is known as Golson 

 Cache No. 2. There are two 

 large dome-shaped mounds on 

 the western side of the river, 

 opposite the Ka-pay-shaw- 

 wink village site, and it is 

 related by the Indian tradi- 

 tions that ' a part of the exterminated Sacs were buried in 

 them. They are known as the Green Point mounds. 



Wllle Cache.— A cache consisting of two celts and about 175 

 chipped blades of triangular shape averaging an inch and a half 

 in length was found in a small marsh hole or periodic pond near 

 the north bank of the Cass river about three miles from Saginaw. 

 Specimens are shown, also, from various sites on the Shiawassee 



W. Orchard, Photo. 

 PIPE MADE CF SANDSTONE. 

 Collected by John Rambow on the Mobray 

 Camp Site. Natural Size. 



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