14 The Saginaw Valley Collection 



to that of the cache specimens. There are several outcrops of 

 this rock within a mile, especially along the beach to the west. 

 In this cache there were some blades of peculiar form, having a 

 straight beveled edge on one side. It seems probable that this 

 was caused by flaking the pieces for turtle-backs from a round 

 concretion. The first flake removed would be symmetrical, but 

 each of the succeeding flakes, if the material were used without 

 waste, would have one side beveled where the one before it had 

 been removed from the nodule. Not all of the flakes had been 

 subjected to sufficient chipping to remove the signs of this bevel. 



W. Orchard, Photo. 

 SEGMENT OF NODULE, RUDE BLANK AND CHIPPED POINT. 

 From the surface of the Esterbrook Village Site. 

 About | Natural Size. 



More or less evidence has been found of the existence of a 

 number of village sites, burial-places, mounds and prehistoric 

 battle-grounds from Bay Port southward along the shore of Sag- 

 inaw Bay, on the western shore of the bay and along the lower 

 course of Saginaw River. There are Ojibwa traditions also 

 which tend to confirm the archaeological evidence. From such 

 sites the quantity of material in this collection is not sufficient 

 to warrant a detailed description of it in this place. This, how- 

 ever, is given in a summary of the Archaeology of Saginaw Valley, 

 Michigan, published in the American Anthropologist beginning 

 with Part II, 1901. The fragments of pottery, arrow-points and 



