"A notable collection of chipped implements, teeth 
and hones of an extinct elephant, top-ether with a remarkable 
series of teeth and bones of the mastodon, besides remains 
of buffalo, deer, horso, and other animals of the historic 
period, was obtained from a spring in the northeastern 
Indian Territory* The association of fossil remains with 
human implements was puzzling until a critical examination 
by Mr. W* B. Holmes, verified through the memory of an aged 
Indian chief, indicated that the spring was a shrine at 
which aboriginal hunters accumulated votive offerings, 
"Other researches were carried on and several publi- 
cations were prepared, as mentioned in detail in the Appendix 
(Pages 21-22. } (Kept, of the 800*7 ~~ Bureau of American 
Ethnology ) 
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"On September 25 Prof. W. H. Holmes, of the national 
Museum, and Mr. Be Lancey Gill, of the Bureau, repaired, 
under the auspices of the Bureau, to northeastern Indian 
Territory for the purpose of examining a spring reported 
by a correspondent to contain abundant bone and flint imple- 
ments associated with bones of both modern and extinct 
animals. They were successful in obtaining (1) the finest 
collection of mammoth teeth thus far made in America; ( 2 ) one 
of the finest collections of mastodon teeth ever made, and 
