Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ed the Potomac. The fact that these peoples were enterpris-ing enough to work an antimony mine suggests the probable iden-tity of these Indians with the workers of the soapstone mines as wellas of the quartzite quarries of the general region. THE CONNECTICUT AVENUE QUARRIES Extensive deposits of steatite are found within the limits of theDistrict of Columbia, but only one locality presents abundant tracesof ancient operations. This site is by some called the Kose hill quarryand by others the Dumbarton qu
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ed the Potomac. The fact that these peoples were enterpris-ing enough to work an antimony mine suggests the probable iden-tity of these Indians with the workers of the soapstone mines as wellas of the quartzite quarries of the general region. THE CONNECTICUT AVENUE QUARRIES Extensive deposits of steatite are found within the limits of theDistrict of Columbia, but only one locality presents abundant tracesof ancient operations. This site is by some called the Kose hill quarryand by others the Dumbarton quarry. It is situated on Connecticutavenue extended, 4 miles from the Executive Mansion, three-fourthsof a mile east of Tenallytown, and a mile and a half from each of thetwo great quartzite-bowlder quarries already described. Literature The quarries in this locality seem to have been first studied by DrElmer E. Reynolds, who in 1878 ijublished a careful description of the Thirteenth annual report of the Peabody Museum, 1878, p. 526. BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. UXXIV.
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