. The Antiquarian [serial]. ces, which were found in an ir-regular pile about four feet below the sur-face at a large village site on the west bankof the Saginaw river, just below the junc-tion of the Tittabawassee and Shiawasseerivers. Ojibwa traditions state that in pre-historic times a great village of the Saukswas located at this place, and that the neigh-boring tribes, including themselves, united,invaded the valley, exterminated the inhabi-tants, and took possession of the land. TheGreen Point Mounds are two large conicalmounds at the western side of the villagesite in which, it is relat
. The Antiquarian [serial]. ces, which were found in an ir-regular pile about four feet below the sur-face at a large village site on the west bankof the Saginaw river, just below the junc-tion of the Tittabawassee and Shiawasseerivers. Ojibwa traditions state that in pre-historic times a great village of the Saukswas located at this place, and that the neigh-boring tribes, including themselves, united,invaded the valley, exterminated the inhabi-tants, and took possession of the land. TheGreen Point Mounds are two large conicalmounds at the western side of the villagesite in which, it is related by the Indian tra-ditioners, a part of the exterminated peoplewere buried. The locality is rich in stoneand pottery remains, and more bone imple-ments have been found upon the surfacehere than in any other place in the chipped blades found in this cachewere made from concretionary chert nod-ules. The blades are oblong and about twoinches in length. Some are of the turtle-back shape. The cache was discovered by. Edward S. Golson while co-operating withthe author in a preliminary examination ofthe village site. It is now in the PeabodyMuseum at Cambridge, Mass., to which in-stitution it was presented, and was the firstcomplete cache to be received by the Mu-seum. Second—Golson Cache No. II. consistedof 59 blades, found about one foot belowthe surface at the village site on the easternside of the river directly opposite the cachejust described. The specimens of this cacheare leaf-shaped, average about 1£ inches inlength, and are of chert. One of the bladeshad been specialized, by notching, at thebase. The points of two of the blades of thecache were broken off and missing, whiletwo of the blades were broken into twoparts. Third—Frazier Cache No. I., consistingof over 300 pieces, was found about one footbelow the surface at a very large village siteon the south side of the Tittabawassee rivernear Paines Station, about five miles aboveSaginaw. This village site is
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