Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . before iron was introduced. Dawson holds that theywere probably prepared in large numbers for the planting time, whenthe whole tribe mustered to till the fields, and that when the work was over they were gathered and hidden in some sale place until the iu\l 1 De Forest, •! W.; II istory of Indians of Conn pPeabody Mum., nth Ann. Rept., p. 271 134 STONE ART. [ETH. ANN. 13 season. This may have been the case to some extent, but the speci-mens found in these hiding places seldom have marks of use. and it
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . before iron was introduced. Dawson holds that theywere probably prepared in large numbers for the planting time, whenthe whole tribe mustered to till the fields, and that when the work was over they were gathered and hidden in some sale place until the iu\l 1 De Forest, •! W.; II istory of Indians of Conn pPeabody Mum., nth Ann. Rept., p. 271 134 STONE ART. [ETH. ANN. 13 season. This may have been the case to some extent, but the speci-mens found in these hiding places seldom have marks of use. and it ismore probable that they were the property either of persons living ata distance or of an individual manufacturer in some particular village,being thus concealed for safe-keeping until there was a demand forthem or, perhaps, to await a convenient time for transportation. Asedentary tribe would have no more reason for hiding this than anyother kind of property. The chipped implements known as spades are frequently foundburied in large numbers. Two caches were disclosed by high water in.
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