^ Cachaymon. A village or tribe, possibly 
Caddoan, mentioned by Iberville (Mar- 
gry, Dec., iv, 178, 1880), in the account of 
his voyage up the Mississippi in 1699, as 
being on or near Red r. of Louisiana. 
Possibly identical with Cahinnio. 
Cache disks and blades. The term cache 
is applied to certain forms of storage of 
property (see Storage ), and in archeol- 
ogy it is employed to designate more 
especially certain deposits of implements 
and other objects, mainly of stone and 
metal, the most noteworthy consisting 
of flaked flint blades and disks. These 
caches occur in the mound region of the 
Mississippi valley and generally through- 
out the Atlantic states. Very often they 
are associated with burials in mounds, but 
in some cases they seem merely to have 
been buried in the ground or hidden 
among rocks. The largest deposit re- 
corded contained upward of 8,000 flint 
disks (Moorehead), a few exceed 5,000, 
while those containing 
a smaller number are 
very numerous. It is 
probable that many of 
these caches of flaked 
stones are accumula- 
tions of incipient im- 
plements roughed out 
at the quarries and car- 
ried away for further 
specialization and use. discoidal flint blade from 
B ut their occurrence a cache of - no specimens; 
with burials, the uni- |LLIN0IS - O-s) 
formity of their shape, and the absence of 
more than the mostmeager traces of their 
utilization as implements or for the making 
of implements, give rise to the conjecture 
that they were assembled and deposited for 
reasons dictated by superstition, that they 
were intended as memorials of important 
events, as monuments to departed chief- 
tains, as provision for requirements in the 
future world, or as offerings to the mys- 
terious powers or gods requiring this par- 
ticular kind of sacrifice. If in the nature 
of a sacrifice they certainly fulfilled all re- 
quirements, for only those familiar with 
such work can know the vast labor in- 
volved in quarrying the stone from the 
massive strata, in shaping the refractory 
material, and in transporting the prod- 
uct to far distant points. In the Hope- 
well mound in Ohio large numbers 
of beautiful blades of obsidian, ob- 
tained probably from Mexico, had been 
cast upion a sacrificial altar and partially 
destroyed by the great heat; usually, 
however, the deposits do not seem to 
have been subjected to the altar fires. 
See Mines and Quarries, Problematical ob- 
jects, Stone-wort. 
Consult Holmes in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 
1897; Moorehead (1) Primitive Man in 
Ohio, pp. 190, 192, 1892, (2) in The Anti- 
quarian, i, 158, 1897; Seever, ibich, 142; 
Smith, ibid., 30; Snyder (1 ) in Smithson. 
Rep 1876, 1877, (2) in Proc. A. A. A. S., 
xlii, 1894, (3) in The Archfeologist, i, no. 
10, 1893, (4) ibich, in, pp. 109-113, 1895; 
Squier and Davis in Smithson. Cont., i, 
1848; Wilson in Nat. Mus. Rep. 1897, 
1899; and various brief notices in the 
archeological journals. (w. h. h. ) 
CACHE OF LANCEOLATE FLINT BLADES 
