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Ohio Archaeologist VOL. 1 NUMBER2 New Series - July 1951 Ohio Indian Relic Collectors Society Columbus, Ohio < V FORTY STEPHENS BIRDST0I-3ES First Row Top to bottom Fourth Row - Top to bottom 1 - (Bust Type) Mecosta County, Michigan. 1 - Darke County, Ohio. 2 - (Bust Type) Lee County, Illinois. 2 - Miami County, Ohio. ; 3 - St. Joseph County, Michigan. 3 - Sa,- -naw County, Michigan. 4 - Franklin County, Ohio. 4 - Ingham County, Michigan. 5 - Posey County, Indiana. 5 - Ogle County, Illinois. 6 - Butler County, Ohio. 6 - Saginaw County, Michigan. 7 - Butler County, Ohio. 7 - Franklin County, Ohio. 8 - Butler County, Ohio. 8 - Lake County, Michigan. 9 - Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Second Row - Top to bottom. Fifth Row - Top to bottom. 1 - Branch County, Michigan. 1 - Kenosha County, Michigan. 2 - Ingham County, Michigan. 2 - Allen County, Indiana. 3 - Allegan County, Michigan. 3 - Rush County, Indiana. 4 - Warren County, Ohio. 4 - Kent County, Michigan. 5 - Delaware County, Ohio. 5 - St. Joseph County, Mich. 6 - Mecosta County, Michigan. 6 - Adams County, Indiana. 7 - Kalamazoo County, Michigan. 7 - Houghton County, Michigan. Third Row - Top to bottom. 1 - Shelby County, Ohio. 2 - Ingham County, Michigan. 3 - Genesee County, Michigan. by B. W. Stephens 4 - Hancock County, Illinois. 815 Broadway, 5 - Yuscola County, Michigan. Quincy, Illinois. 6 - Williams County, Ohio. 7 - Gibson County, Indiana. 8 - Sandusky County, Ohio. - 1 - • CONTENTS Page Birdstones - B. W. Stephens, Quincy, Illinois. 1 Contents 2 Officers 3 Council Fire Echoes - President 4 Editorialana by the Editor 5_6 The Schisler Pipe - Phil Kientz 7_10 Spears, Arrowheads or Knives - Vaughn Ladd 12 Dated Gorget - B. 17. Kelley 12-15 Ohio and Indiana Atlatls - H. R. McPherson 16-19 Ball Banners - Fred Bartol 20-23 Artifacts from the Harold Engle collection 24-25 Artifacts from the Chas. Kisling collection. 26-27 Membership Roster 28-32 Buffington Island Mound - H. R. McPherson 33-34 Birdstones - John A. Zakucia 35-36 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Indiana Meeting Oct. 7-51 See Page 23 - 2 - OFFICERS President H. C. Wachtel, 307 Elmhurst Rd., Dayton, Ohio. Vice-Pres Frank Burdett, 112 East Main St., Springfield, Ohio. Sec'y-Treas Ernest L. Spoon, R. R. #2, Miamisburg, Ohio. DIRECTORS Dr. Leon Kramer, Columbus, Ohio. LaDow Johnston, Toledo, Ohio. Mr. F. P. Mooney, Ohio State Museum. Prof. Victor Hill, Athens, Ohio. Earl Townsend, Jr., Indianapolis, Ind. PUBLISHING COMMITTEE Dr. G. F. Meuser - 2248 Summit St., Columbus, Ohio. H. R. McPherson - Editor - 1116 Franklin Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Leon Kramer - 2581 E. Fifth Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Mr. F. P. Mooney, Ohio State Museum, Columbus, Ohio. LaDow Johnston, 2001 Toledo Trust Bldg., Toledo, Ohio. B. E. Kelley, 138-140 S. Fayette St., Washington C. H., Ohio. C. H. Bauer, 2866 E. 13th Ave., Columbus, Ohio, David Collins, 627 Snow Hill Blvd., Springfield, Ohio. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Frank Burdett, Springfield, Ohio. F. P. Mooney, Ohio State Museum. Dr. Leon Kramer, Columbus, Ohio. LaDow Johnston, Toledo, Ohio, Prof, Victor Hill, Athens, Ohio. George Carroll, Urbana, Ohio. MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE LaDow Johnston, Northwest Section. Dr. Leon Kramer, Central Section. G. W. Dilley, Northeast Section. C. H. Kruger, Southwest Section, Donald McBeth, Southeast Section. Frank Burdett, Overall Section. OBJECT OF THE SOCIETY The Ohio Indian Relic Collectors Society is organized to discover and conserve archaeological sites and material within the state of Ohio; seek and promote a better understanding among collectors of archaeological material including individuals, museums and institutions and to disseminate knowledge as to subject matter of archaeology. The membership is composed of United States citizens of suitable character and interest. The annual membership dues is &3.00 payable June 1 each year. The funds are used for mailing notices of meetings and publishing our "Bulletin" of which we aim to put out four issues each year. Articles and pictures are furnished by the members. Due credit should be given this publication and the author for any article or data copied and published by others. - 3 The Ohio Archaeologist is supposed to appear quarterly. We would like to have them on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1. We will not meet just these dates this year, but we will have four issues. In order to effect this in the future with out confusion and rush, it will be necessary that contributors have their copy in the hands of the editor not later than September 1, for the next issue and December 1 for the issue next following. Copy, therefore must be received thirty days prior to date of publication. If received later than this deadline, it will be held'for publication in the issue following. Members are urged to prepare their articles and send them in at once. Such copy will be held and drawn upon when the time comes. Much editing and stenciling is done prior to the thirty day time limit. Were that not the case, it would be L-npossible to publish on the date line. All of this avoids rush both in the preparation of text and in the editing and printing of the copy. There is so much that could and should be published that there seems scarcely any limit, to the opportunities and possibilities for the preparation of material for publication. You are urged to contribute text and submit high quality photo graphs as soon as possible. All such should be mailed to the Editor. I would also like to call to the attention of each member who is on a committee that it is urgent that you cooperate faithfully with the committee of which you are a member. This applies to the Publishing, Membership and Program com.aittc.es*. You have received individual letters asking for your cooperation and I am sure you will respond accordingly. The success of our future meetings and bulletins are entirely in your hands and we hope to have progressively better meeting and publications. We have new members signing up all the time and we wish to welcome each one and hope that they can all have something to contribute to the betterment of our society and we Want each member to feel free to write the president or any other officer or member of any criticisms they have and we vail avail ourselves of the opportunity for correction. This is your society to enjoy to the fullest and we hope all will enjoy meeting together with congeniality and good fellowship. - 4 - EDITORIAL AIJA By the Editor Members of this Society ere, as a rule, keen observers. Some delve into phases and features relating to ceremonial arid slate objects; others keen ly observe and study- every angle pertaining to materials, types and distribution of flint; still others make similar studies regarding artifacts from stone and bone. Their treatises are read with much interest. All this stimulates thought and ideas which frequently add to the cum total of archaeological knowledge. It is strongly urged that members avail themselves of such suggestions and come forth with something for publication. *- -::- •>:- * •>:- -Si- After a number of years of gleaning Indian village sites in the Scioto Valley in Franklin and Pickaway Counties, the collector comes up with some observations which may have weight. Some of the sites of more prominence have been visited many times, resulting in interesting discoveries. One of these persoral observations is to the effect that more of these Indian sites were occupied up into historic tinea than may have been suspected. For instance, a gun flint and clay tobacco pipe, of the trade type, were picked up from the Merion Site just south of Columbus; a similar pipe, a gun flint and a glass bead were found on e site near the Mackey Ford bridge in northern Pickaway County; and a piece of metal, showing engraving max'ks, and evidently from a flint lock rifle, was found on a site about throe miles south west of Circleville, All these sites happen to be on the east side of the Scioto River. No one could say with any certainty that these objects were of Indian origin but it is well within the realm of reason to suspect that they may have been. Doubtless other collectors have had siailar experiences and such occur rences might well be reported. * •>; * # •>"- # Another observation which has arisen after lengthy study, is the rather frequent appearance of broken exes, and occasionally celts, on well- definod camp and village sites. The discovery of those fragments almost with out fail would elicit a comment such as "what a beauty that must have been - and what a shame I" Specimens have been collected and compared and it has been noted that fragments of such axes and celts may be found on any of the village sites along the Scioto River in this area. For quite a while little significance was attached to the matter until finally the realization struck hard that these pieces of axes and celts were almost uniformly from finely-fashioned specimens; that the cutting edges were rarely blemished; and thct they seemed to have been deliberately shattered by heavy, laterally-struck blows. It appears clearly that breakage was not due to the ordinary, or even extra-ordinary;usage for which they wore intended. Were that the case the cutting edges would have . ... suffered first. Then, too, the shattering blows seemed to have been delivered from the side. Logic may well be employed when one attempts to find a reason for this treatment - and there must have been a. definite reason. It is a wellknovm fact that superstition dominated the everyday life of those peoples and that the more prized possessions of the deceased either were buried alongside or were "killed," or destroyed in order to release their spirits, that they might thereby join their owners in their sojourn into that happier land.