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Volume  36  March  27,  1962  No.  11 

THE  RED  OCHER  CULTURE 

OF  THE 

UPPER  GREAT  LAKES  AND  ADJACENT  AREAS 

Robert  E.  Ritzenthaler 

Curator  of  Anthropology,  Milwaukee  Public  Museum 
AND 

George  I.  Quimby 

Curator  of  North  American  Archaeology  and  Ethnology 
Chicago  Natural  History  Museum 

Within  the  Upper  Great  Lakes  and  adjacent  regions  the  Late 
Archaic  and  Early  Woodland  complex  known  as  "Red  Ocher"  occurs 
sporadically.  The  bearers  of  this  culture  sprinkled  powdered  red 
ocher  over  the  bodies  of  their  deceased  after  placing  them  in  graves. 
The  relatively  few  sites  and  the  considerable  variation  of  the  traits 
from  site  to  site  has  made  this  one  of  the  more  elusive  of  the  cultural 
complexes.  It  is  found  particularly  in  Wisconsin,  Michigan,  Illinois, 
Iowa,  Indiana,  and  Ohio. 

It  is  our  purpose  to  define  tentatively  the  Red  Ocher  culture 
by  the  analysis  of  information  from  all  site  reports  that  have  come 
to  our  attention,  and  to  plot  its  distribution.  We  began  our  survey 
of  this  culture  in  1957,  using  published  accounts  and  museum  collec- 
tions. Our  inventory  of  sites  that  we  consider  to  be  Red  Ocher  is 
only  partially  complete  but  we  believe  it  to  be  adequate  for  our 
purposes. 

The  term  "Red  Ocher"  was  first  used  in  1937  by  Cole  and  Deuel 
(1937,  p.  202)  and  a  preliminary  description  of  the  complex  was 
made  in  terms  of  data  from  three  sites  in  central  Illinois  (F°ll, 
lower  component  of  F°14,  and  F°563).  Some  additional  sites  have 
since  been  recognized  as  Red  Ocher  because  of  their  cultural  sim- 
ilarity to  those  described  by  Cole  and  Deuel.  However,  there  has 
not  been  thus  far  any  broad  synthesis  of  the  existing  information 
on  the  Red  Ocher  culture  and  it  is  often  easily  confused  with  its 

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twin  (fraternal,  not  identical),  the  Glacial  Kame  culture.  Our  own 
uncertainty  as  to  what  constituted  the  Red  Ocher  culture  led  us 
to  make  this  study. 

The  Red  Ocher  culture  consists  of  a  series  of  overlapping  associ- 
ations of  marginal  traits  based  on  a  core  of  nuclear  traits  that  include 
the  following:  flexed  burials  in  pits  on  ridges  of  sand,  gravel,  or  loess; 
powdered  red  ocher  in  grave;  "turkey-tail"  blades  of  chipped  blue- 
gray  flint;  rather  large  lanceolate  ceremonial  knives  of  whitish  flint; 
and  caches  of  ovate-trianguloid  points. 

In  our  survey  of  information  dealing  with  the  Red  Ocher  complex 
we  listed  any  site  that  we  suspected  might  belong  to  this  complex. 
Some  of  these  sites  were  subsequently  removed  from  the  list  because 
analysis  of  their  traits  showed  they  were  not  Red  Ocher.  One  diffi- 
culty has  been  the  fact  that  red  ocher  was  spread  on  burials  in 
numerous  other  cultures;  and  although  the  use  of  red  ocher  in  graves 
achieved  its  first  major  popularity  in  the  time  of  the  Red  Ocher 
culture,  this  trait  persisted  down  to  the  period  of  European  contact 
with  native  American  cultures.  On  the  other  hand,  there  are  some 
Red  Ocher  sites  that  did  not  have  red  ocher  present  in  burials  yet 
produced  other  nuclear  traits  indicative  of  the  Red  Ocher  culture. 

Another  difficulty  that  we  encountered  was  that  many  of  the 
published  accounts,  particularly  those  written  between  1877  and 
1937,  contained  inadequate  descriptions  of  artifacts;  the  circum- 
stances of  the  finds  were  also  often  omitted  or  not  detailed.  Most 
of  the  finds  were  the  accidental  discoveries  of  farmers,  contractors, 
and  collectors,  and  although  some  artifacts  reached  museums  where 
they  can  be  re-examined  today,  much  of  this  material  can  no  longer 
be  traced. 

THE  CULTURAL  ASSEMBLAGE  OF  RED  OCHER 

We  have  eliminated  Adena  from  our  consideration  of  Red  Ocher 
as  a  distinct  assemblage.  Although  Red  Ocher  traits  may  appear 
occasionally  in  Early  Adena  we  believe  this  to  be  the  result  of  diffu- 
sion from  Red  Ocher  to  Early  Adena  or  possibly  the  result  of  some 
Red  Ocher  ancestry  in  Adena.  In  any  event  we  do  not  consider 
Adena  a  part  of  our  problem  at  this  time.  Glacial  Kame,  which 
easily  can  be  confused  with  Red  Ocher,  we  shall  consider  presently. 

A  comparison  of  the  traits  exhibited  in  the  sites  presented  in  our 
sample  suggests  that  a  concept  of  the  Red  Ocher  cultural  assemblage 
must  be  based  on  a  series  of  traits  that  overlap  variably  from  one 
manifestation  to  another  (see  table,  pp  266-271).  After  preliminary 


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Fig.  114.  Large  ceremonial  blades  from  Carey  site,  Wisconsin.  Blade  at  left 
14  inches  long. 

analysis  of  our  trait  lists  it  seemed  useful  to  divide  Red  Ocher 
traits  into  two  categories — nuclear  and  peripheral.  By  "nuclear" 
we  mean  the  basic  or  core  traits  that  turn  up  consistently.  They 
are  always  or  nearly  always  present.  An  example  is  the  use  of 
red  ocher  in  the  burial  procedure. 

In  addition  to  the  nuclear  traits  there  are  peripheral  or  fringe 
traits  that  sporadically  occur  in  association  with  the  nuclear  traits. 
Birdstones  seem  to  be  an  example.  Peripheral  traits  are  thus  either 
of  rare  occurrence  or  less  consistent  in  appearance  than  the  nuclear. 

Nuclear  Traits 

1.  Use  of  a  layer  of  red  ocher  (hematite)  to  cover  grave.  This 
often  seeps  down  to  stain  the  bone  or  artifacts  or  both. 

2.  Burials  in  flexed  position,  in  pits,  in  sand.  While  several 
cremations  and  several  bundle  burials  have  been  reported, 
the  usual  burial  method  is  flexure. 


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The  presence  of  large  (some  are  19  inches  in  length),  "cere- 
monial," whitish-flint  blades,  ellipsoidal  in  shape  with  a  taper 
toward  a  truncated  base  (figs.  113  and  114).  Primary  flaking 
with  secondary  retouching.  Solutrean  in  feel.  Some  are  killed. 

"Turkey-tail"  blades  of  hornstone,  a  bluish-gray  chert  from 
southern  Indiana.  Collector's  term  based  on  resemblance  of 
halting  end  to  the  tail  of  a  dressed  turkey.  Side-notched, 
ellipsoidal  shape.  Primary  and  secondary  chipping.  Fine 
workmanship.  Usually  occur  in  small  caches  (fig.  116).  A 
similar  type  except  for  a  stemmed  tang  also  occurs  and  we 
have  termed  it  the  modified  turkey-tail  (fig.  116,  center). 

Small,  unnotched,  ovate-trianguloid  chert  knives  or  points. 
Secondary  retouching.  Somewhat  crude.  Majority  are  asym- 
metrical, suggesting  usage  as  knife  or  scraper  (figs.  115  and 
123).  Some  may  be  blanks  for  stemmed  or  notched  points. 
Occur  in  large  caches  (115  at  Andrews  site). 


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Fig.  115.    Ovate-trianguloid  points  from  Thiensville  site,  Wisconsin.    Length, 
1  to  1  %  inches. 


Fig.  116.    Turkey-tail  blades,  top  and  bottom;  modified  turkey-tail  blade  in 
center.    Dyer  site,  Indiana.    Blade  at  top  5}4  inches  long. 


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Fig.  117.  Turkey-tail  blade  (bottom)  and  modified  turkey-tail  blade  from 
Thiensville  site,  Wisconsin.    Blade  at  bottom  8  inches  long. 

6.  Presence  of  worked  copper,  usually  thick  rolled  or  thinner 
tubular  beads  (fig.  118)  but  occasionally  awls,  celts,  knives 
(fig.  119)  or  points. 

7.  Tubular  marine  shell  beads. 

There  are  three  distinctive  nuclear  traits  which  we  consider  to 
be  diagnostic  of  Red  Ocher  and  which  occur  in  no  other  cultural 
assemblages  with  which  we  have  made  comparisons.  The  three 
traits  are  the  large  ceremonial  blades  (figs.  113  and  114),  the  ovate- 
trianguloid  knives  (fig.  115),  and  the  turkey-tails  (figs.  116  and  117). 

Peripheral  Traits 

The  following  elements  are  occasionally  found  in  association  with 
the  nuclear  traits: 

1.  Interment  in  mounds. 

2.  Use  of  cremation  or  bundle  reburial  method  of  interment. 

3.  Presence  of  un worked  galena  cubes. 

4.  Circular  or  ovate  shell  gorgets. 

5.  Birdstones  (fig.  121). 


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Fig.  118.    Copper  beads  from  Dyer  site,  Indiana. 


6.  Bar  amulets  (fig.  122). 

7.  Three  hole  rectanguloid  gorgets  (fig.  123,  center). 

8.  Tube  pipes. 

9.  Grooved  axes. 

10.  Celts. 

11.  Early  Woodland  pottery. 

Thus  Red  Ocher  may  be  described  as  a  culture  revealed  solely 
through  caches  and  a  burial  complex  in  which  a  number  of  con- 
sistent interment  practices  appear,  accompanied  by  a  comparatively 
small  assemblage  of  artifacts,  three  of  which  appear  to  be  diagnostic. 


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Fig.  119. 
inches  long. 


Copper  awl  and  copper  celts  from  Dyer  site,  Indiana.     Awl  4% 


The  sites  in  our  sample  are  distributed  from  eastern  Iowa  to 
central  Ohio  and  from  southern  Ohio  to  the  Manitoulin  District  of 
Ontario.  Most  of  the  sites,  however,  seem  to  be  in  southeastern 
Wisconsin,  northern  Illinois,  northern  Indiana,  and  the  southern 
half  of  the  Lower  Peninsula  of  Michigan.  In  much  of  this  area 
Red  Ocher  is  a  co-occupant  with  Glacial  Kame. 

If,  as  now  seems  probable,  the  final  phase  of  Old  Copper  merges 
into  both  Red  Ocher  and  Glacial  Kame,  then  there  is  to  be  expected 


Fig.  120.    Beads  of  marine  shell  from  Thiensville  site,  Wisconsin. 


Fig.  121.    Birdstone  3%  inches  long,  made  of  slate;  from  Carey  site,  Wis- 
consin. 


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a  point  at  which  the  remnants  of  Old  Copper  and  its  budding  off- 
springs, Red  Ocher  and  Glacial  Kame,  are  inextricably  mixed.  This 
might  be  the  case  at  the  Reigh  site  in  Wisconsin,  at  which  the 
first  excavations  produced  among  other  things  a  sandal-sole  gorget, 


Fig.  122.    Bar  amulet  6%  inches  long,  made  of  slate;  from  Dyer  site,  Indiana. 

shell  beads,  copper  implements,  and  burial  practices  suggestive  of 
Glacial  Kame  (Baerreis  et  al.,  1954,  p.  34).  Subsequent  finds  at  this 
site,  however,  included  copper  crescents,  copper  socket-tanged  points, 
and  copper  spuds  which  thus  far  have  occurred  only  in  "pure" 
Old  Copper  sites.  The  sandal-sole  gorget  was  not  directly  associated 
with  Old  Copper  artifacts,  however,  and  it  is  possible  that  two  com- 
ponents exist  at  this  site. 

To  summarize  our  position:  "If  the  Glacial  Kame  and  Red  Ocher 
peoples  were  not  actually  physical  and  cultural  descendants  of  the 
Old  Copper  folk,  they  were  certainly  followers  of  the  basic  cultural 
traditions."   (Ritzenthaler,  1957,  pp.  278-279.) 

RED  OCHER  AND  GLACIAL  KAME 

Red  Ocher  culture  is  very  similar  to  Glacial  Kame  culture  (cf. 
Cunningham,  1948)  and  they  overlap  spatially  as  well  as  temporally. 
In  southern  Michigan,  northern  Illinois,  parts  of  Ohio,  and  northern 
Indiana,  Red  Ocher  and  Glacial  Kame  sites  exist  in  the  same  areas. 
For  instance,  there  is  in  Lake  County,  northern  Illinois,  a  Glacial 
Kame  site  within  a  few  miles  of  a  Red  Ocher  site.  This  Glacial 
Kame  site  is  near  Half  Day  in  the  Des  Plaines  Valley.  In  the  summer 
of  1959  commercial  stripping  operations  uncovered  burials  in  a  deep 
gravel  deposit.  The  information  regarding  them  was  obtained  through 
the  interest  and  observations  of  Mr.  James  R.  Getz,  who  conducted 
archaeological  salvage  operations  at  this  site. 

In  a  grave  or  graves  dug  into  the  gravel  were  the  skeletons  of 
four  adults  and  two  children  covered  with  powdered  red  ocher. 


^9  6    ^k  B  ^ts^ 


Fig.  123.    Red  Ocher  artifacts  from  Thiensville  site,  Wisconsin.    The  turkey- 
tail  blade,  bottom  row,  center,  is  8  inches  long. 


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The  skeletons  were  flexed.  Accompanying  the  dead  were  rolled  copper 
beads  and  two  gorgets  made  of  marine  shell,  each  about  6  inches 
long  and  shaped  like  the  sole  of  a  sandal,  with  3  perforations  along 
the  midline.    In  this  context  the  sandal-sole  gorget  of  shell  is  the 


Fig.  124.    Flint  point  \M  inches  long; 
from  Dyer  site,  Indiana. 


trait  that  identifies  the  site  as  Glacial  Kame.  If  instead  of  the 
sandal-sole  gorgets  there  had  been  one  or  more  turkey-tail  blades, 
we  would  have  assigned  this  site  to  the  Red  Ocher. 

This  example  illustrates  the  very  close  relationship  of  Early  Red 
Ocher  and  Glacial  Kame.  As  we  said  earlier,  they  are  like  fraternal 
twins.  Most  of  the  traits  we  have  called  marginal  can  occur  in 
either  Red  Ocher  or  Glacial  Kame.  Assemblages  of  traits  from  these 
two  cultures  are  much  alike.  However,  we  have  not  so  far  found 
any  site  of  the  two  that  contains  either  the  turkey-tail  blades  or 
the  large  lanceolate  ceremonial  knife  in  association  with  the  sandal- 
sole  gorget.  Thus  we  have  concluded  that  if  one  finds  a  flexed  burial 
in  a  gravel  pit  accompanied  by  red  ocher,  copper  and  shell  beads, 
birdstones,  copper  axes  and  awls,  and  sandal-sole  gorgets  of  shell, 
the  culture  is  Glacial  Kame.  If,  on  the  other  hand,  there  are  no 
sandal-sole  gorgets,  but  there  are  turkey-tail  blades  or  large  cere- 
monial leaf-shaped  blades,  or  perhaps  a  cache  of  ovate-trianguloid 
points,  the  culture  is  Red  Ocher. 

If,  in  the  future,  sites  are  found  in  which  sandal-sole  gorgets 
and  the  diagnostic  Red  Ocher  traits  are  in  direct  association,  then 


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we  shall  be  forced  to  conclude  that  Red  Ocher  and  Glacial  Kame 
were  identical;  but  until  that  time  we  have  two  closely  related  but 
distinguishable  cultures  manifested  primarily  by  their  burial  customs. 

There  seem  to  be  some  Late  Archaic  cultures  other  than  Glacial 
Kame  that  resemble  Red  Ocher  culture  and  probably  are  related 
to  it.  We  picked  up  some  evidence  of  these  in  our  preliminary 
inventories  while  we  were  searching  for  Red  Ocher  traits.  We  are 
not,  however,  prepared  to  deal  with  these  cultures  at  the  present 
time,  and  have  eliminated  them  from  the  sample  presented  in  this 
paper. 

TEMPORAL  POSITION  OF  RED  OCHER 

There  are  several  ways  to  assess  the  age  of  the  Red  Ocher  culture : 
geological  relationships,  archaeological  stratigraphy,  and  radiocarbon 
dating. 

Quimby  (1958)  pointed  out  that  a  typical  Red  Ocher  site  in 
Manitowoc  County,  Wisconsin,  was  on  the  lakeward  side  of  and 
below  the  level  of  the  fossil  beach  marking  the  Algoma  stage  of  the 
Upper  Great  Lakes  and  therefore  that  this  site  should  be  later  than 
the  Algoma  beach.  That  the  site  could  have  been  established  earlier 
than  the  Algoma  beach  seemed  very  unlikely  because  in  such  an 
instance  the  site  would  also  have  to  have  been  older  than  the  Nip- 
issing  stage  of  lake  levels  that  were  older  and  higher  than  Algoma. 
Although  deep  burials  such  as  are  customary  in  Red  Ocher  probably 
could  have  survived  flooding  on  this  shallow  shoreline,  it  was  felt 
that  a  pre-Nipissing  date  was  too  old.  The  Nipissing  stage  began 
at  about  3000  B.C.  (cf.  Quimby,  1960b,  pp.  16  and  25-26),  and  if 
Red  Ocher  were  pre-Nipissing,  it  would  be  older  than  3000  B.C. 
Since  by  virtue  of  their  pottery  the  youngest  Red  Ocher  sites 
are  tied  to  Early  Woodland  horizons  (ca.  500  to  100  B.C.)  in  the 
Upper  Great  Lakes  region  it  seemed  unreasonable  to  believe  that 
the  non-ceramic  Red  Ocher  sites  could  be  earlier  than  3000  B.C. 
Thus  we  abandoned  the  possibility  of  a  pre-Nipissing  age  for  Red 
Ocher  and  concluded  that  Red  Ocher  could  not  be  older  than  the 
Algoma  stage,  which  began  at  about  1500  B.C.  (Quimby,  1960b, 
pp.  17,  26). 

We  knew  that  Red  Ocher  culture  preceded  Hopewell,  because 
Cole  and  Deuel  (1937,  pp.  204-205)  demonstrated  this.  Radio- 
carbon dating  of  the  1950's  suggested  that  Hopewell  culture  began 
some  time  between  500  B.C.  and  100  B.C.  Thus  with  Red  Ocher 
culture  bracketed  between  the  Algoma  beach  and  the  Hopewell 


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culture,  it  should  fall  into  a  period  between  1500  B.C.  and  100  B.C. 
This  in  fact  it  does,  as  we  shall  show  by  two  radiocarbon  datings 
of  Red  Ocher  culture. 

The  Andrews  site,  a  rich  Red  Ocher  cultural  manifestation  in 
Saginaw  County,  Michigan,  has  been  dated  at  1210  B.C.  plus  or 
minus  300  years  (M-659,  Crane  and  Griffin,  1960,  p.  34).  The 
dating  is  based  on  human  bone  in  association  with  red  ocher  burials, 
birdstones,  and  a  variety  of  copper  and  flint  artifacts  illustrative 
of  Red  Ocher  culture  that  were  found  in  a  sand  ridge  marking  a 
stage  of  the  Algoma  beach  at  this  place.  The  cultural  remains 
themselves  and  the  early  date  indicate  that  the  Andrews  site  is 
Early  Red  Ochre. 

A  Late  Red  Ocher  site  is  the  Sny-Magill  Mound  43,  in  Clayton 
County,  Iowa,  dated  at  470  B.C.  plus  or  minus  250  years  (M-305) 
and  540  B.C.  plus  or  minus  250  years  (M-308,  Crane  and  Griffin 
1958,  p.  1099).  By  virtue  of  the  cultural  content  and  date  this 
Red  Ocher  manifestation  belongs  to  the  Early  Woodland  stage 
and /or  period. 

A  site  which  might  be  considered  to  be  very  late  Red  Ocher 
is  the  K.B.  1  mound  at  Killarney  Bay  in  the  Manitoulin  District 
of  Ontario.  This  mound  has  been  dated  at  about  80  B.C.  plus  or 
minus  200  years  (M-428,  Crane  and  Griffin  1959,  p.  183),  and  from 
what  we  know  of  the  cultural  content  we  judge  this  mound  to  be 
late  in  the  Early  Woodland  period. 

In  general,  Late  Red  Ocher  is  characterized  by  the  addition 
of  burial  mounds  or  certain  kinds  of  pottery  or  possibly  tubular 
pipes  to  various  combinations  of  the  nuclear  and  marginal  traits 
typical  of  Early  Red  Ocher.  Moreover,  burial  mounds  and  pottery 
are  lacking  in  Early  Red  Ocher. 

It  is  our  conclusion  that  Early  Red  Ocher,  which  is  Late  Archaic, 
lasted  from  some  time  between  1200  and  1500  B.C.  to  about  500  B.C., 
and  that  Late  Red  Ocher,  which  is  Early  Woodland,  lasted  from 
about  500  B.C.  to  100  B.C.  or  slightly  later.  South  of  the  Upper 
Great  Lakes  region  these  dates  and  periods  may  prove  to  be  some- 
what earlier.  The  temporal  position  of  Red  Ocher  and  Glacial 
Kame  lends  credence  to  the  thesis  that  these  are  transitional  cul- 
ture growths  with  roots  in  Old  Copper  and  branches  in  Woodland. 

The  following  section  consists  of  summaries  of  the  source  materials 
upon  which  we  have  depended.  They  include  publications,  museum 
collections,  and  field  work. 


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SITES  AND  FINDS  IN  WISCONSIN 

Carey  site,  Milwaukee  County  (see  Brown,  1916,  pp.  73-75). — 
Various  commercial  operations  between  1904  and  1913  destroyed 
a  number  of  burials  in  the  Carey  gravel  pit.  The  following  traits 
and /or  artifacts  were  found  by  the  workmen:  Burials  associated 
with  artifacts;  red  ocher  in  the  graves;  6  ceremonial  blades,  leaf- 
shaped,  of  white  flint  ranging  in  length  from  8  to  14  inches  (see  fig. 
114);  15  ovate-trianguloid  cache  points;  intentional  breakage  of 
blades  prior  to  burial;  1  leaf-shaped  blade  of  copper;  3  copper  awls  5, 
6,  and  113^  inches  long;  50  spheroidal  beads  of  copper  34  to  % 
of  an  inch  in  diameter;  3  tubular  beads  of  copper  1%  to  23^  inches 
long;  5  shell  beads;  and  2  pop-eyed  birdstones  of  ground  slate  3^ 
(fig.  121)  and  5%  inches  long. 

Layton  Park  site,  Milwaukee  County  (see  Brown,  1916,  p.  39). — 
In  1892,  while  grading,  workmen  found  at  this  site  six  turkey-tail 
blades  of  "blue  hornstone"  and  a  leaf-shaped  ceremonial  knife  of 
light-colored  flint. 

Thiensville  site,  Ozaukee  County  (see  Ritzenthaler  and  Niehoff, 
1958,  pp.  115-119;  Niehoff,  1959,  pp.  26-27).— This  site,  dug  in  1958, 
consisted  of  3  burials  about  7  feet  deep  in  a  sand  ridge.  One  burial 
was  in  flexed  position,  the  other  two  may  have  been.  Red  ocher 
was  abundant  in  the  graves.  Found  with  or  near  the  burials  were 
5  turkey-tail  or  modified  turkey-tail  blades  of  blue  hornstone  (figs.  117 
and  123);  1  side-notched  blade  of  the  same  material  (fig.  123); 
1  tanged  blade  of  hornstone;  55  ovate-trianguloid  cache  points 
(figs.  115  and  123);  4  copper  awls  square  in  section  and  pointed 
at  each  end  (fig.  123);  a  large  number  of  spheroidal  and  tubular 
beads  of  copper;  a  large  number  of  marine  shell  beads  (fig.  120), 
both  disk-shaped  and  spheroidal;  some  small  cubes  of  galena;  and 
a  rectanguloid,  3-hole  gorget  of  polished  stone  (fig.  123). 

Port  Washington  site,  Ozaukee  County  (see  Quimby,  1957,  pp.  1-3). 
— The  following  artifacts  were  found  with  or  near  a  burial  in  gravel 
4  to  6  feet  deep:  4  large,  leaf-shaped  ceremonial  blades  of  light- 
colored  flint;  1  similar  blade  of  copper;  20  ovate-trianguloid  cache 
points;  1  modified  turkey- tail  blade  of  hornstone;  3  stemmed  points 
of  flint;  2  corner-notched  points  of  flint;  1  copper  celt;  and  1  grooved 
axe  of  ground  stone. 

Leon  site,  Sheboygan  County  (see  Gerend,  1920,  p.  189). — Some 
time  prior  to  1920  there  were  18  blue  hornstone  knives  (turkey- 
tails?)  found  with  a  burial  in  a  gravel  pit. 


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Molash  Creek  site,  Manitowoc  County  (see  Quimby,  1958). — In 
1898  the  following  artifacts  were  found  with  or  near  a  burial  in 
a  ridge  of  sand:  1  leaf -shaped  ceremonial  blade  of  whitish  flint; 
a  similar  blade  of  copper;  about  165  ovate- trianguloid  cache  points 
of  chipped  stone;  4  stemmed  points  of  flint;  1  stone  bead;  and  110 
tubular  and  spheroidal  beads  of  copper.  There  was  evidence  of  red 
ocher  on  the  skeleton  and  on  some  artifacts. 

Hathaway  site,  Manitowoc  County  (see  Brown,  1907,  p.  63;  Falge, 
1915,  p.  149). — A  cache  of  14  turkey-tail  blades  of  blue  hornstone 
was  found  in  1878  when  struck  by  a  plow. 

Whitefish  Bay  or  Mashek  site,  Door  County  (see  Brown,  1907, 
pp.  61-62,  and  1924,  p.  70;  Shumacher,  1918,  p.  141).— In  1905  a 
flexed  burial  was  found  by  workmen  who  were  cutting  a  road  through 
a  hill.  With  the  burial  were  15  turkey-tail  knives  of  blue  hornstone 
and  a  lanceolate,  stemmed  blade  of  gray  flint. 

Stephensville  site,  Outagamie  County  (see  Brown,  1907,  p.  63,  and 
1930,  p.  103;  Fox,  1916,  p.  16).— A  cache  of  6  turkey-tail  blades  of 
blue  hornstone  ranging  from  3%  to  93^  inches  in  length  was  found 
with  7  flint  and  quartzite  spearpoints  some  time  before  1907  in  sec- 
tion 18  of  Ellington  township. 

Chalk  Hills  site,  Marinette  County  (see  Brown,  1940,  p.  75). — In 
1932,  excavation  of  the  undisturbed  part  of  a  burial  mound  on  the 
banks  of  the  Menominee  River  produced  a  single  bundle  burial 
stained  with  red  ocher  and  3  turkey-tail  blades  of  blue  hornstone. 

Wolf  River  site,  Shawano  County  (see  Brown,  1907,  p.  68). — 
Some  time  prior  to  1907  a  cache  of  40  ovate  trianguloid  points  of 
brownish  chert,  6  turkey-tail  blades  of  blue  hornstone,  and  1  socketed 
copper  point  was  found  in  a  "pocket,  1%  feet  deep  on  the  eastern 
bank  of  Wolf  River." 

Wautoma  site,  Waushara  County  (see  Brown,  1907,  p.  61). — A 
cache  of  9  turkey- tail  (?)  blades  of  blue  hornstone  was  found  near 
Wautoma  some  time  prior  to  1907. 

Paulsen  Farm  site,  Calumet  County  (see  Brown,  1907,  p.  61). — 
About  1883,  a  cache  of  22  turkey-tail(?)  blades  of  blue  hornstone 
was  found  beneath  the  roots  of  a  black  ash  stump  on  the  Paulsen 
farm. 

Fond  du  Lac  site,  Fond  du  Lac  County  (see  Brown,  1915,  p.  179). — 
A  large,  leaf-shaped  ceremonial  blade  of  light-colored  flint  10  inches 
long  was  found  in  1891  in  a  gravel  pit  that  contained  burials. 


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Bartell  site,  Dodge  County  (see  Brown,  1915,  pi.  5  and  pp.  177- 
178). — In  1911,  a  leaf -shaped  ceremonial  blade  12^  inches  long  of 
light-colored  flint  was  found  with  a  burial  in  a  gravel  pit  on  the 
Bartell  place  near  Theresa. 

Boltonville  site,  Washington  County  (see  Brown,  1907,  p.  64). — 
In  1886,  a  farmer  near  Boltonville  found  4  turkey-tail  blades  beneath 
a  stump. 

Pewaukee  Lake  site,  Waukesha  County  (see  Brown,  1907,  p.  64, 
and  1930,  pp.  99-100). — Some  time  before  1907  a  cache  of  6  turkey- 
tail  blades  of  blue  hornstone  was  found  near  the  east  shore  of  Pewau- 
kee Lake. 

Lisbon  site,  Waukesha  County  (see  Brown,  1930,  p.  100).— In  or 
before  1930,  3  turkey-tail  blades  were  found  with  a  burial  in  a  mound 
at  Lisbon. 

Janesville  site,  Rock  County  (see  Brown,  1907,  p.  64). — In  1903, 
workmen  found  4  turkey-tail  blades  between  5  and  6  inches  long  and 
fragments  of  a  brownish  flint  knife  about  14  inches  long  at  a  depth 
of  nearly  4  feet  beneath  a  street  in  Janesville. 

Stoughton  site,  Dane  County  (see  Brown,  1915,  pp.  178-179). — 
In  1884,  at  a  depth  of  4  feet  beneath  a  street  were  found  2  burials; 
one  was  accompanied  by  90  copper  beads  and  the  other  was  asso- 
ciated with  2  leaf-shaped  ceremonial  blades  of  light-colored  flint 
between  9  and  10  inches  in  length. 

New  Lisbon  site,  Juneau  County  (see  Brown,  1907,  p.  64). — In 
1904,  a  cache  of  8  turkey-tail  blades  of  blue  hornstone  was  found 
during  the  cultivation  of  a  field  within  the  limits  of  New  Lisbon. 
Four  of  these  blades  were  between  5  and  6  inches  long. 

SITES  AND  FINDS  IN  IOWA 

Sny-Magill  Mound  1$,  Clayton  County  (see  Beaubien,  1953, 
pp.  57-60). — Mound  43,  a  component  of  the  Red  Ocher  culture, 
was  70  feet  in  diameter  and  5  feet  high.  The  mound  contained  4 
groups  of  bundle  burials  at  least  one  of  which  might  be  considered 
a  tightly  flexed  burial  inasmuch  as  many  of  the  bones  had  been  held 
in  proper  anatomical  order  by  the  ligaments.  This  mound  also  con- 
tained thick  layers  of  red  ocher;  2  large,  leaf-shaped  ceremonial 
blades  of  light-colored,  pinkish  flint;  5  stemmed  points  (one  frag- 
mentary) of  chipped  stone;  12  spheroidal  beads  of  copper;  1  flint 
side  scraper;  and  26  sherds.  One  sherd  was  grit- tempered  and  cord- 
marked;  the  others  were  also  grit-tempered,  but  were  decorated  with 


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a  combination  of  rocker  stamp  and  twisted  cord  impressions  forming 
bands  of  geometric  design. 

Harpers  Ferry  site,  Allamakee  County  (see  Beaubien,  1953,  p.  60). 
— In  a  mound  at  Harpers  Ferry  a  red  ocher  floor  30  feet  in  diameter 
was  associated  with  bundle  burials;  1  leaf -shaped  ceremonial  blade 
of  flint;  125  spheroidal  beads  of  copper;  1  bar  amulet  ("long  copper 
bar")  of  copper;  and  notched  or  stemmed  flint  projectile  points. 

SITES  AND  FINDS  IN  ILLINOIS 

Beake  site,  Lake  County  (Quimby  notes).— About  1954,  in  the 
course  of  gravel  pit  operations  near  the  town  of  Grayslake,  a  burial 
was  found  in  a  grave  pit  dug  into  the  gravel.  With  this  burial  were 
quantities  of  powdered  red  ocher;  at  least  17  turkey- tail  blades  of 
blue  hornstone  (blue-gray  flint) ;  and  a  large,  leaf-shaped  ceremonial 
knife  of  whitish  flint  that  probably  had  been  broken  at  time  of  burial. 

Morton  site  F°ll,  Fulton  County  (see  Cole  and  Deuel,  1937, 
pp.  65-69). — The  site  is  a  low,  dome-shaped  burial  mound  on  a 
ridge  of  yellow  loess.  The  mound  apparently  was  produced  by  bring- 
ing in  earth  to  cover  up  bodies  successively  laid  on  the  ground.  The 
lowermost  burials  appear  to  have  been  placed  in  pits  that  had  been 
dug  in  the  yellow  loess. 

There  were  flexed  and  semiflexed  burials,  disarticulated  skeletons 
that  may  have  been  bundle  burials,  and  cremations.  Some  burials 
were  accompanied  by  caches,  chiefly  of  lanceolate  blades  of  chipped 
flint.  Burials  and /or  caches  had  been  sprinkled  with  powdered  red 
ocher  in  nine  instances  (profusely  in  three)  and  seven  were  without 
red  ocher. 

In  addition  to  ovate-trianguloid  cache  points  there  were  stemmed 
points,  side-notched  points,  and  a  turkey-tail  blade  of  chipped  flint; 
a  lanceolate  blade  with  stem;  and  large,  expanded  base  drills,  scrap- 
ers, cores,  and  spauls  of  chipped  flint. 

Ground  stone  objects  consisted  of  two  small  celts  8  and  9.4  cm. 
long  and  rectangular  in  section.  There  were  also  cuboids  of  galena 
and  metallic  hematite  (red  ocher)  showing  facets  as  if  ground  for 
paint. 

Artifacts  of  copper  were  a  rectanguloid  plaque  with  longer  sides 
concave;  an  awl  or  pin,  square  in  section;  and  16  tubular  beads. 

Shell  objects  included  1  pear-shaped,  two-hole  gorget  that  had 
been  broken  and  mended,  2  circular  gorgets,  and  12  beads  fashioned 
by  boring  holes  in  the  apexes  of  Marginella  shells. 


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Pottery  was  limited  to  4  sherds  of  thick,  grit-tempered  ware  with 
plain  exterior,  one  of  which  had  a  basketry  or  textile  impression  on 
the  interior. 

Animal  remains  were  those  of  deer,  elk,  and  dog.  Objects  of 
bone  were  a  cut  section  of  antler,  an  awl  made  from  a  deer  meta- 
podial  bone  and  a  split  metapodial  bone  of  an  elk. 

Morton  site  F°H.,  Fulton  County  (see  Cole  and  Deuel,  1937, 
pp.  87,  89-90). — The  burials  classed  as  Red  Ocher  lay  on  undis- 
turbed yellow  loess.  Usually  they  were  badly  disintegrated  and  in 
five  out  of  seven  cases  were  covered  with  red  ocher.  Such  interments 
were  apparently  made  in  a  slight,  natural  elevation.  The  grass  and 
top  soil  were  removed  and  the  body  laid  on  the  undisturbed  loess. 
The  earth  piled  back  over  the  bodies  formed  a  low  mound. 

Three  of  the  burials  were  fully  flexed,  three  were  too  fragmentary 
to  indicate  position,  and  one  was  disarticulated  or  disturbed.  One 
burial  was  without  any  grave  goods  and  three  burials  had  a  fair 
amount  of  grave  goods. 

Artifacts  from  this  site  are  1  turkey-tail  blade  of  chipped  flint, 
3  ovate- trianguloid  points  of  chipped  flint,  a  fragment  of  copper,  a 
cuboid  of  galena,  at  least  7  tubular  and  cylindrical  beads  of  copper, 
a  globular  bead  of  shell,  2  circular  shell  pendants,  a  crescentic  orna- 
ment of  shell,  and  a  copper  pin  or  awl  that  is  square  in  section. 

Morse  site,  Fulton  County  (see  Morse,  1959,  pp.  194-200). — The 
excavated  portion  of  this  site  consisted  of  18  burials,  less  than  20 
per  cent  of  which  had  associated  grave  goods.  The  skeletons  were 
semi-flexed  or  tightly  flexed  in  pits  in  a  natural  ridge  of  loess  over 
which  one  or  possibly  two  low  conjoined  mounds  had  been  erected. 
Most  of  the  skeletons  had  red  ocher  with  them.  Artifacts  found 
here  include  about  70  ovate- trianguloid  cache  points;  4  or  more 
straight-stemmed  points  of  chipped  flint;  some  heavy  spheroidal  and 
tubular  beads  of  copper;  6  barrel-shaped  beads  of  stone;  1  copper 
awl,  square  in  section;  some  disk-shaped  beads  of  shell;  and  a  conch 
shell  container. 

Banner  site,  Fulton  County  (see  Morse,  1959,  p.  201;  Wray,  1937). 
—Fifteen  flexed  burials  covered  with  red  ocher  were  found  in  a 
mound.  Artifacts  from  this  mound  were  4  turkey- tail  blades  of 
dark-colored  flint;  a  9-inch  (leaf-shaped  ceremonial)  knife  of  pink 
flint;  27  spheroidal  copper  beads;  4  beads  of  marine  shell;  1  notched 
projectile  point;  1  leaf-shaped  blade  of  dark  flint;  1  shell  spoon; 
1  piece  of  galena;  and  1  rim  sherd  of  thick  grit-tempered  pottery 
(Marion  Thick). 


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SITES  AND  FINDS  IN  INDIANA 

Kankakee  River  site,  Lake  County  (see  Faulkner,  in  press). — In 
1919,  along  the  dredged  bank  of  the  Kankakee  River,  there  was 
found  a  cache  of  20  lanceolate  blades  many  of  which  had  the  classic 
turkey-tail  form.  They  ranged  from  2J/£  to  6J4  inches  in  length  and 
were  made  of  bluish  gray  flint. 

Oak  Grove  site,  Lake  County  (see  Faulkner,  in  press). — In  1907, 
during  grading  operations  in  a  sand  hill  in  West  Creek  Township, 
a  burial  was  found,  accompanied  by  copper  artifacts,  red  ocher  on 
blades,  24  turkey-tail  and  modified  turkey-tail  blades  of  blue-gray 
flint,  3  corner-notched  blades  of  light-colored  flint,  and  4  leaf-shaped 
ceremonial  blades  of  whitish  flint.  With  this  burial  or  nearby  were 
46  ovate-trianguloid  flint  cache  points  stained  with  red  ocher. 

Dyer  site,  Lake  County  (see  Quimby,  1960a,  p.  5). — This  site, 
excavated  in  1915  by  Mr.  Philip  C.  Schupp,  consisted  of  a  burial  in 
a  deep  grave  pit  in  a  sand  ridge.  Within  the  grave  was  the  flexed 
skeleton  of  an  adult  accompanied  by  burial  goods  and  profuse  quan- 
tities of  powdered  red  ocher.  With  the  skeleton  were  2  turkey-tail 
blades  of  dark  blue-gray  flint  (blue  hornstone),  one  5  inches  long, 
the  other  5^  inches  long  (fig.  116);  1  modified  turkey-tail  blade  of 
blue-gray  flint  4)/£  inches  long  (fig.  116);  1  large,  leaf-shaped  ceremo- 
nial blade  of  white  flint  about  19  inches  long  (fig.  113);  45  thick 
spheroidal  beads  of  copper  (fig.  118);  1  copper  awl  with  square  sec- 
tion 4?<4  inches  long  (fig.  119);  3  copper  celts  4)4  to  5%  inches  long 
(fig.  119);  1  bar  amulet  of  ground  slate  6%  inches  long  (fig.  122); 
and  1  small  flint  point  with  double  side  notches  (fig.  124). 

Brandywine  Creek  site,  Hancock  County  (see  Townsend,  1959, 
pp.  190-192). — In  1911  there  was  found  at  this  site  a  cache  consist- 
ing of  6  large  turkey- tail  blades;  1  small  bust- type  birdstone  of  white 
quartzite;  and  1  stone  celt.  The  turkey- tail  blades  and  birdstone 
were  liberally  stained  with  red  ocher.  Four  of  the  blades  were  broken 
as  if  heat  shattered. 

Mound  site  Sh  73,  Shelby  County  (see  Dragoo,  1951,  p.  29). — A 
small  mound  excavated  around  1895  contained  a  burial  and  associ- 
ated artifacts  including  6  turkey- tail  blades  8  inches  long;  1  birdstone 
of  ground  and  polished  slate;  and  some  sherds  of  grit- tempered,  cord- 
marked  pottery. 

Hasler  site,  Greene  County  (see  Townsend,  1959,  pp.  192-194). — 
This  site  was  discovered  during  plowing  of  a  low  knoll  in  1948.  With 
a  burial  in  the  center  of  the  knoll  were  found  a  ball  of  red  ocher  and 


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a  bust-type  birdstone  of  black  and  white  gneiss.    Nearby  were  found 

2  rectanguloid  celts  of  gabbro;  a  cache  of  21  large  turkey- tail  blades 
coated  with  red  ocher;  and  a  cache  of  5  smaller  turkey-tail  blades 
also  covered  with  red  ocher. 

Site  Mr-215,  Marshall  County  (see  Faulkner,  1960,  pp.  36-38).— 
In  1947,  more  than  300  whole  and  broken  ovate-trianguloid  cache 
points  were  found  in  a  sand  knoll  on  a  farm  in  Green  Township. 

Peterson  site,  Pulaski  County  (see  Faulkner,  1960,  pp.  42-45). — 
Found  with  a  burial  in  a  sand  knoll  were  7  large,  modified  turkey- 
tail  blades  of  bluish-gray  flint  (blue  hornstone);  320  ovate-triangu- 
loid cache  points;  and  about  100  thick,  tubular  beads  of  copper. 

SITES  AND  FINDS  IN  OHIO 

Spetnagle  site,  Ross  County  (see  Anonymous,  1923,  pp.  639-640). — 
In  excavating  the  basement  for  a  dwelling  in  Chillicothe  a  cache  of 
more  than  200  turkey-tail  and  modified  turkey-tail  blades  was  un- 
earthed by  a  horse  and  scraper.    These  blades  ranged  in  length  from 

3  inches  to  103^  inches  and  were  made  of  blue-gray  flint.  The  ma- 
jority of  the  blades  were  true  turkey-tails. 

Kick  site,  Holmes  County  (see  Case,  1877,  p.  267). — In  the  sum- 
mer of  1870,  a  cache  of  96  ovate-trianguloid  points  stained  with  red 
ocher  was  found  in  gravel  four  feet  beneath  the  surface  of  a  pond- 
like depression  on  a  farm  in  Washington  Township. 

SITES  AND  FINDS  IN  MICHIGAN 

Moccasin  Bluff- A  site,  Berrien  County  (see  Hills,  1898,  p.  77). — 
In  1896-97,  a  flexed  burial  and  a  cache  of  stone  artifacts  were  found 
at  Moccasin  Bluff,  one  mile  north  of  Buchanan.  The  cache  con- 
tained 7  turkey-tail  blades;  11  leaf-shaped  blanks  that  could  be  made 
into  turkey-tails  merely  by  notching  them;  and  1  small  axe.  The 
blades  and  blanks  were  of  light  blue  flint  and  12  of  the  18  had  yel- 
low bases. 

Kimmel  site,  Berrien  County  (see  Papworth,  1958,  pp.  51-56). — 
This  site  near  Berrien  Springs  on  a  gravelly  terrace  of  the  St.  Joseph 
River  consisted  of  a  cache  and  a  burial,  both  of  which  had  been  dis- 
turbed in  the  course  of  excavation  by  machinery.  The  cache  con- 
tained 4  crude  turkey-tail  blades  that  seem  to  have  been  broken 
prior  to  deposition  and  at  least  450  ovate-trianguloid  cache  points. 
The  burial,  an  adult  in  a  shallow  pit,  was  associated  with  33  short, 


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tubular  beads  of  copper;  1  ovate-oblong  gorget  of  copper  with  2  holes; 
and  1  broken  crescent-shaped  object  of  copper. 

Frazier  site,  Saginaw  County  (see  Smith,  1901,  pp.  22-24). — 
Some  time  prior  to  1901,  a  cache  consisting  of  more  than  300  pieces 
was  found  about  a  foot  beneath  the  surface  in  sand  on  the  south  side 
of  the  Tittabawassee  River,  about  5  miles  upstream  from  Saginaw. 
The  cache  consisted  of  large  turkey-tail  blades  about  8  inches  long, 
made  of  dark  concretionary  chert;  small  turkey-tail  blades  about 
3  inches  long,  of  dark  concretionary  chert,  the  center  black  and  hard, 
the  tips  grading  off  by  successive  rings  to  a  comparatively  soft  yel- 
lowish chert;  ovate- trianguloid  cache  points  of  yellow  chert;  and  a 
few  of  the  latter  made  into  points  with  wide,  square  stems. 

Andrews  site,  Saginaw  County  (see  Smith,  1901,  pp.  21-22;  Town- 
send,  1959,  pp.  219-225;  Griffin,  oral  communication;  Greenman, 
oral  communication;  and  Papworth,  oral  communication). — This 
site  is  on  a  sandy  ridge,  a  former  strandline  of  the  Algoma  stage  in 
the  Lake  Huron  basin.  Grave  pits  contained  flexed  burials,  bundle 
burials,  and  cremations,  powdered  red  ocher,  and  burial  goods.  Arti- 
facts include  turkey-tail  blades  of  dark-colored  flint;  115  ovate-tri- 
anguloid  cache  points;  side-notched  and  square-stemmed  points  of 
chipped  flint;  copper  celts;  stone  celts;  heavy  awls  of  copper,  square 
in  section;  smaller  copper  awls  and  needles;  cylindrical  and  spheroidal 
beads  of  copper;  1  copper  harpoon  point  with  multiple  barbs  on  one 
side  only;  and  4  birdstones.  A  detailed  report  on  the  recent  exca- 
vations at  this  site  is  being  prepared  by  the  University  of  Michigan. 

HaUiner  site,  Alpena  County  (oral  communication  from  Mr. 
Gerald  Haltiner). — At  a  site  7  miles  north  of  Alpena,  63  ovate- 
trianguloid  points  were  found  in  a  cache.  These  points  ranged  in 
length  from  13^  to  3  inches;  some  were  stained  with  red  ocher. 

SITES  AND  FINDS  IN  ONTARIO 

Killarney  Bay  Mound,  Manitoulin  District  (see  Greenman,  1953, 
p.  177;  1954,  p.  4,  and  oral  communication). — Burials  found  in  pits 
beneath  a  burial  mound  on  a  beach  ridge  28  feet  above  the  level  of 
Lake  Huron  were  associated  with  various  items  that  include  the  fol- 
lowing: more  than  100  "coarse  cache  blades"  stained  with  red  ocher; 
1  small  turkey-tail  blade;  copper  beads;  large  copper  awls,  square  in 
section;  narrow  copper  celts;  2  tubular  pipes  of  stone;  1  large  flint 
blade  oval  at  each  end;  several  large,  corner-notched  blades  of  flint; 
and  some  sherds  of  grit-tempered  pottery. 


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

We  wish  to  thank  Miss  Lillian  A.  Ross,  Associate  Editor  of  Scien- 
tific Publications,  for  her  editorial  work  in  our  behalf.  We  also  wish 
to  thank  Dr.  James  B.  Griffin,  Dr.  Emerson  F.  Greenman,  Dr.  Mark 
Papworth,  and  Dr.  Lewis  Binford  for  providing  us  with  information 
about  sites  they  had  excavated.  Mr.  Mark  Ritter,  while  a  student 
at  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  helped  us  survey  published  sources 
of  information. 

The  photographs  used  to  illustrate  this  paper  are  from  Milwaukee 
Public  Museum  and  Chicago  Natural  History  Museum.  Figures 
113,  116,  118,  119,  122,  and  124  are  Chicago  Natural  History  Mu- 
seum photographs,  and  figures  114,  115,  117,  120,  121,  and  123  are 
Milwaukee  Public  Museum  photographs. 


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