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Show ELEVEN" THOUSAND INDIAN ARROW HEADS HIDDEN IN ONE CACHE Eleven thousand arrow hcada In. ono cache, hidden there by some Indian arrow makor long before the while man first set foot In America, were found recently in Delaware County, Oklahoma, at a point where the Cowskln and Delaware rivers come together. Dr. V. II. Holmes, head o'f the Smithsonian Institute, writing about the discovery to Dr. Barnard of Seneca, Sen-eca, Mo., said: "Your cache of Indian arrow points Is larger by more than 2,000 than any deposit of Indian Implo- menls of which I havo , knowledge. It Is especially noteworthy by reason rea-son of the fact that the implements are finished and not merely blank forms. I do not know of any cache of finished Implements containing moro than a few hundred." Thus Oklahoma furnishes the greatest cache of tho ancient flint workers' art known to science. This remarkable collection was discovered by James nnd Bert Stan- ley of Grove, Okla.. while squirrel hunting. Their dog chased four squirrels up a tree nnd one of tho Stanley boys sat down at tho fool of the tree and saw tho point of an arrow head protruding from tho sand. It was more perfect In shapo and the flint wan moro beautiful in color than anyvhe had ever seen before. be-fore. Ho and his brother scratched around in the sand and found several sev-eral arrow heads just as perfect as the first one. Tho boj-3 took tho arrow heads to Dr. Barnard In Seneca, who has a largo collection of Indian rollcs. He went to tho place where they were found, and, by sifting the sand from a spot only a fow feet In diameter, he found 11,000 heads. About 10,000 of tho arrow heads found are what aro known to collectors col-lectors as "war points." They aro symmetrical, translucent and perfect, per-fect, ranging in length from one-fourth one-fourth to thrco and one-half Inches, with all shapes of notches known to collectors. The arrow heads aro extremely thin, the longer ones very slender, and seldom over three-fourths three-fourths of an Inch wide. Those found near the surface were mado of chert quarried from an anclont Indian implement quarry seven miles northwest of Seneca, while those deeper In tho earth were made from flint found in the bottom bot-tom of an old river bed near the cache. A flint hammer, some flakes of flint from which arrpw heads were made, and r few other flint imple-r.ients imple-r.ients were found In the cache. Dr. Barnard asserts that the In-olan In-olan arrow maker who made those arrow points was a master of his art. The Indian relics usually found In that neighborhood are rude and roughly worked, but no finer specimens speci-mens were ever found anywhere than these. Dr. Barnard believes tho 11,000 arrow heads were all mado by ono man who had his tepee at that point, and to whom the Indiana came from many different points to buy. How so many arrow heads camo to be left undisturbed In ono cacho can only be conjectured. Tt may be that a war between different tribes caused that part of the country coun-try to be depopulated for a time and the tepco of the Indian artisan fell in decay and tho winds of years covered his stock of arrow heads with sand. Another theory is that the 11,000. arrow heads was the hoard of some Indian miser. Arrow heads were a medium of exchange nnd this miser may havo accumulated this wealth and had them hidden In the earth. |