The Saginau Vallej Collection 13 



determined the site of this prehistoric village. The limestone 



bearing chert suitable for the manufacture of arrow-points under- 



the island and outcrops on us western shore within easy 



access of tins site. Hammer-stones, chipped points for arrows, 

 knives, spears, drills, etc., and chipped flint implements resem- 

 bling small hoes were gathered here, as well as fragments of pot- 

 tery and a piece of S pottery pipe. Many ot the potsherds are 

 neatly ornamented, some by incised designs, others by designs 

 made by pressing twisted cord or twine into the clay while it was 

 Another important locality is the one known as Bay Tort 

 Village Site, from which the grooved stone hammer used for our 

 illustration was taken. 



Near some i^ the villages hidden deposits or caches have been 

 found, fourteen in all having been discovered in the Saginaw 

 valley. The specimens from a number of these may be seen in 

 this collection. That the quarries from which the Indians ob- 

 tained their raw material have yet to be found is possibly because 

 S of them may have been obliterated by modern quarrymen 

 v the grinding of the ice or the beating of the surf against the 

 lake-shore outcrops during the many years which must have 

 elapsed between the time when the Indians abandoned the 

 quarries and the time when the first archaeologist saw the site. 

 The caches seem to indicate that expeditions were made to these 

 quarries and a large number of the partly finished forms were 

 chipped, and that they were taken to the vicinity of the permanent 

 camp and cached in the earth, where the stone would be kept 

 from becoming weathered. 



Bay Port Cache. — < )ne cross-section of a chert nodule and 



forty-seven " turtle-back " blank forms, constituting a cache, 



were found two feet below the surface, in the muck jungle, about 



a hundred feet from the shore of Wild Fowl Bay, and a quarter 



of a mile east of the wharf at Bay Port. The place is between 



the bay and the sand ridge on which the Bay Port village site is 



The specimens in the cache were found in one long 



. overlapping one another somewhat like shingles on a roof. 



ibable t! tateriaJ of which they were made was 



obtained near tl. ince the outcrop of Subc arboniferous 



. which occurs for some distance along the beach westward 



from the wharf, bears the material of which is similar 



