. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 24.—Side scrapers and bipointed object, Fanning site. more to the west. Pumice occurs as irregular slightly worked lumps that may have been gathered along the shore of the IVIissouri River, as it was by the historic Indians of the valley. The nearest natural occurrence of catlinite was the famous quarry in southwestern Minne- sota, whence the stone may have reached the Fanning locality by intertribal trade. Hematite was obtainable in Missouri and southern Iowa, but the exact locality from which originated the pieces found at Fanning is uncertain. Diorite, Sioux qu
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 24.—Side scrapers and bipointed object, Fanning site. more to the west. Pumice occurs as irregular slightly worked lumps that may have been gathered along the shore of the IVIissouri River, as it was by the historic Indians of the valley. The nearest natural occurrence of catlinite was the famous quarry in southwestern Minne- sota, whence the stone may have reached the Fanning locality by intertribal trade. Hematite was obtainable in Missouri and southern Iowa, but the exact locality from which originated the pieces found at Fanning is uncertain. Diorite, Sioux quartzite, and granite were obtainable as boulders in the glacial drift of northeastern Kansas, and probably the materials of which our artifacts were made were taken at no great distance from the Fanning Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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