THE. NEWSLETTER. Of the Houston Archeological Society. Number 10. June, 1963

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1 THE. NEWSLETTER Of the Housto Archeological Society Number 10 Jue, 1963 (Published from time to time. Chairma of the Society, Doald R. Lewis. Editorial committee, H. Mcwhiey,ad L. E. Ate.) NEW OFFICERS The ew officers of the Society, for the term, are: Doald R. Lewis, chairma; Damo C. Du, secretary-treasurer; William P. Caskey, Ala R. Duke, ad Edward Norbeck, directors. A list of members appears later i this issue. -1-

2 CARp,Qcd4,4 u p, c" 4 CA Parlci Hu A MIN T./.../"., 14i, 'a cove -4* GD ,,ix t=..%(... c.,,, o a' HoacKE0,3* Po Dr, r -s'rgye- rio/ 0fifem Cr/7,,977?iar oel A'Ae.Mv('.qw/4 8,9r/D By Zi4 fir s NBA/ /AI 7-,eig /82/, (.7-9,y61/Ci.9 15E ĀV/ -.5V40/41/4/ 69 6 V-5-) 6.4tzve.s7-bA/ 67,,tiry xti.s r STATure o i MILES ' I ' I 1 I,frAgiofie0/1 US C;arr Qem.e...0 "/ / 6.- 2,4 3 OPENED BY ACCIDENT E. Raymod Rig, Jr. The seasoably pleasat Saturday afteroo of November 10, 1962, provided for may people of the Housto area the relaxatio that comes from viewig football through oe medium or aother. At the same time, however, a smaller but o less ethusiastic group deied themselves such pleasure to atted a symposium o New World archaeology at Rice Jiversity, where a large part of the total professioal athropological talet of the tiester Hemisphere was cogregated i the fial afteroo of a two-day lecture series. Little did either the assembled athropological digitaries or their devotees suspect that simultaeously some fifty miles away a very small group of me, uburdeed with archaeological ihibitios, were opeig by accidet a rather large Idia site o the Jamaica Beach Developmet Compay's property o West Galvesto Islad. Heavy earth hadlig equipmet had at that time pretty well tor up about twothirds of the part of the Idia site which lies o the Jamaica Beach property. A twelve-ich gag plow had first bee pulled over this area; the a earth loader had stripped off much of the dark brow loamy sad to provide early 500 dump truck loads of rich orgaic topsoil for certai beach properties. More tha 90 percet of all this: soil was placed o a sigle beach lot, ad through the cooperatio of the lot ower, These piles of soil were allowed to stad uleveled through several hoavy rais, which icoverod a large collectio of Idia artifacts, eve though they were o loger i their origial positios. -2-

3 O this evetful Saturday afteroo the earth movig equipmet had suddely exposed a few boes. The workme the called the caretaker, 'Ate Holliday, kow to may as the "Mayor of Jamaica Beach", for ay possible chage of istructios. At this poit the story becomes rather obscure because all participats have sice leared that their efforts were ill-advised. Whatever ivestigatory diggig was doe o this ad the followig day was admittedly. carried out i iocece ad i igorace of the harm, but ot etirely irreparable harm, beig doe to the archaeological record. Some proof of this is see i the fact that most of the huma boes recovered durig this time, represetig parts of three persos, were preseted to the Galvesto Couty Sheriff's Departmet i suspicio of usolved murders. The followig morig these lawme visited the "scee of the crime" ad departed with the remais, which, after some cosideratio, they decided were a matter for the Joh Scaly Hospital of the Medical School to hadle. Ultimately these boes were recovered by the Museum. Ia short time public speculatio had positively idetified these boes variously as (1) those of people murdered by the Mafia, (2) sailors killed by Jea La Fitte to coceal the site of buried treasure, (3) Galvesto residets killed by the hurricae of The fact that all skeletos wore eatly placed, tightly flexed, etirely articulated, ad recogizable as havig teeth like those of Idias made little impressio o ayoe except the amateur archaeologists. By Suday morig the ews of the discovery had spread. The property owers were iformed. They wisely ordered Willie Holliday ad his parter Frak Easley to guard the site agaist ivasio by treasure seekers. But before the "mayor" could take charge with his door rifle a few pot huters had opeed ie burials to varyig degrees. Ufortuately, some of the boes were removed as souveirs, the skulls beig the greatest attractio. Suday ight Dr. T. E. Pulley, director of the Housto Museum of Natural Sciece, was called by Housto City Coucilma Johy Goyc, oe of the parters i the Jamaica Beach Developmet Compay 1/ ad the Museum agreed to accept the resposibility for the archaeological excavatio of the site. At the same time the Housto Archaeological Society agreed to share the resposibility with the Museum. The followig day Dr. Pulley, his appoited coordiator, Norvil Wilso, ad this writer met with Mr. Goyc at the site ad made arragemets to protect it from further damage ad to prepare the program of archaeological work. The owers obligigly agreed to fece the area ad to cotiuo a 24 hour guard for as log as ecessary. A six-strad, six-foot-high barbed wire fece was erected aroud the cemetery ad the small remaiig udisturbed part of the site. More fece was built to provide the public fairly close access to the burial area so that people could watch the excavatio. A large area at the ortheast margi of the site, most of which was disturbed by earth machiery, was feced off for public diggig. I the first few weeks of work this public dig area ot oly produced a multitude of iterestig artifacts, but also developed some of the most competet of ew amateur archaeologists, who have sice made otable cotributios to the cotrolled archaeological project ad have also become members of the Society. More fecig provided a parkig area ad also provided protectio for the disturbed iterior of the site. The owers cotiued the 24-hour armed guard util the public realized that this site would be excavated i a busiesslike maer. Durig the first few weeks after discovery the Jamaica Beach site probably received more ewspaper, radio ad televisio publicity tha ay other site i the history of the Housto-Galvesto area. The amateur archaeologist ofte foud himself elbowig his way through ews reporters ad camera me. The umber The umber of persos who passed through the gate to date is coservatively estimated at 20,000. However, obody kows how may were comig for the secod or third time. The early effort cosisted of (1) fidig, exposig, ad recordig the burials ad of (2) screeig the recetly disturbed o-referece occupatio soil i the burial area. was here that the public dig, with a average workig crew about twety times as large as that of the Museum ad Society, got way ahead of the scietific excavators i collectig artifacts, While there was uquestioably some pocketig of public dig artifacts, it is believed that most of the importat archeological material recovered i the public dig was give to the museum. 1/ Aside from Goyc, the owers of Jamaica Beach Developmet Compay are Bill Sherrill, Jack Wilso, libloom Wilso, ad Jack Valeti of Housto. While ot a parter, oilma R. E. "Bob" Smith ows cosiderable property i the developmet, icludig the etire Jamaica Beach archeological site. Ralph Frcedso, the Compay's lawyer, geerously doated his cottage to the use of the Museum.

4 Oce the burials had bee atteded to, the disturbed "trash" soil i the burial area had bee processed through screes, ad a plae table-alidade map had bee prepared, the cotrolled excavatio i five-foot squares bega i the small remaiig udisturbed part of the site. At this writig 40 squares have bee excavated to iclude ot oly the udisturbed site area but also the burial area ad the adjoiig property to the west owed by other iterests. Site Locatio The Jamaica Beach site (41 GV5) lies o a abadoed beach ridge i the approximate geographical ceter of West Galvesto Islad, Galvesto Couty, (ie. about equidistat betwee the Gulf ad Bay shorelies). The site is joied directly by water to Galvesto Bay through Lufki Bayou o the east ad Ostermayor Bayou o the west. is o these extreme east ad west limbs of the site that the occupatio area departs from the abadoed beach ridge ad becomes the atural platform at the margis of the waterways. The highest poit surveyed o the site is some seve feet above the water level of Lufki Bayou. These two bayous today support abudat oysters (Crassostrea virgiica), as well as the little salt water periwikle sail (Littoria) which seem to have bee two of the chief foods of the Idias who camped there. The third was fish. There are a few shells of the bay clam (Veus mercearia), ad the bay oyster drill (Thais). Gulf shellfish are represeted by small amouts of the Diocardium clam ad the coch (Busyco), plus a few rare valves of the Dosiia clam. Stragely eough, with the possible exceptio of two questioable coch shell gouges, ot oe sigle shell artifact has bee recovered from the Jamaica Beach (41 GV5) site so far. Cotrolled excavatios havo proved that the site has a miimum legth of 1050 foot. Burrowig aimals have show several hudred feet of additioal site o each ed. Stratigraphy From the surface to about 13 iches of depth the soil cosists of dark brow orgaic loamy sad with some shell ad Idia artifacts throughout; however, the dese accumulatio of cultural material appears at depths of six to twelve iches. From about 18 iches to 32 iches the soil is a clear light tabrow sad, completely devoid of artifacts. Most of the burials cross the cotact betwee these two soil layers, with the uderside of the skeleto restig i the sterile sad ad the upper parts beig covered by a ich or so of the dark orgaic soil. Below 32 iches there is a thick layer (24 iches at places ad somethig more tha 40 iches at oe place to total depth) of fragmetary, surf-chured, smoothly abraded sea shells with iterstices filled with sad. Shell fragmets idetify both Gulf ad Bay forms of orgaisms. Where the bottom of this layer ca be foud, the uderlyig material is a clear light ta-brow sad, as is foud above the shell layer. The top two iches of the shell layer carry a deep rust-colored stai, which gives the appearace of both weatherig ad of havig supported grass roots for a short tie. All zoes below the depth of 18 iches lack artifacts. A somewhat brackish but drikable subsurface water is foud at a average depth of 5 feet. The Skeletal Remais /9 To date sevetee huma skeletos have bee idetified. Two are of childre ad fiftee are of adults, the latter probably ragig i age o the low side at years ad o the high side at years. appears that adult males outumber adult females. Bods aro well preserved i a few cases of very mature adults ad the sterum is eve preserved. The teeth of all people occlude ad, regardless of age, all show ucommo wearig, probably from havig chewed cosiderable sad. Several of the old folks show what may be osteoporosis (the growth of superfluous porous boe). This amateur diagosis of the afflictio is beig chocked by a experieced boe pathologist at George Washigto Uiversity i St. Louis. The vertebral colums of all the people are orieted o a east-west axis with the head, i every case except oe, beig at the west. The exceptio is exactly opposite. Bodies are tightly flexed, with mior variatios, ad all except two are restig either o their backs or sides. Tho two exceptios are buried face dow. The skeletos are foud i a compact area of about 20 foot square. I a few cases two ad three persos are buried o top of oe aother. However, there seems to be o evidece of simultaeous burials. A fairly compact oyster shell layer was foud over each of the burials. O oe adult burial eight ualtered Dosiia shells had bee delicately placed o the femur a few iches from the kee ad a large ualtered Diocardium shell had bee placed over this. With 446

5 this exceptio, o burial offerigs of ay descriptio wore foud. However, certai flit ad boe artifacts occurred at radom i the midde soil of the burial area. Through the efforts of Dr. Do Lewis, presidet of the Housto Archaeological Society, ad by courtesy of the Shell Developmet Compay, a radiocarbo assay will be made of the Dosiia shell ad possibly of some oyster shell plated betwee two burials of a triplo burial arragemet.2/ Some of the Idias may have suffered head wouds while alive, the damaged boes later healig i part. But o specialist i such matters has yet checked the skulls. What They Ate The pricipal foods of the Jamaica Beach Idias were oysters, fish ad periwikles (salt water sails), probably i this order. Certai other shell fish such as coch ad clams were obtaied i small amouts from both the Bay ad the Gulf. A few doer were eate at the site, as were small mammals, probably possums, raccoos, rabbits, etc. A cosiderable amout of mouse ad rat boes suggests that these were eate too. But these aimals may have dug their ow graves i the site. Bird boes are preset ad dog (or wolf) teeth have bee recovered. The Flit Artifacts About three doze arrowpoits have bee recovered from site 41 GV5. All are Perdiz except for about a half doze which are Scallor. Oly three dart poits have bee foud, cosistig of a Rofugio kife (or dart), a Gary (?), ad a Ket (?). A Pederales dart stem was brought out of the public dig but there is some questio as to its autheticity. Three flit drills have bee removed. Two odules of flit, each with a chip removed at the ed for a peek at the quality, are a part of the collectio. Boe ad Atler A few boe artifacts such as awls, ad pis have bee foud. Halves of three two-piece deer boe fishhooks have bee recovered, as well as two small polished bird boe beads, a fish spie bead, ad a large polished mammal boe bead. Oe atler tie flakig tool ad a few probable boe flakig tools have bee collected. Pottery Thousads of potsherds were foud. Almost all are of sad tempered pottery. Some sherds are icised with parallel lies ad simple geometric desigs ad a few have simple puctate marks -- these i the traditio of Goose Creek ceramics ad possibly, too, of Coles Creek. A small part of the collectio is paited with asphaltum i the traditio of Rockport pottery. Likewise the shapig marks formed by pullig the aturally serrated edges of such shells as Diocardium, Pecte, etc., over the wet clay, a commoly observed trait of Rockport pottery, are soo' frequetly at Jamaica Beach. If it were ot for these two oticeable features, the Jamaica Beach pottery would udoubtedly be called Goose Creek pottery, as perhaps it is i part or i total. However, it becomes icreasigly evidet that coastal Idia pottery is too poorly defied at this time to establish ay clear distictios as amog Goose Creek, Rockport, ets if i fact ay really exist. is hoped that the research plaed by T. N. Campbell at Padre Islad this comig summer will throw more light o this problem. 2/ Radiocarbo aalyses performed by Dr. E. L. Marti of Shell Developmet Co. gave the followig results: Littoria shells from SB 108, yrs. B. P. Dosiia shells from Burial K yrs. B. P. Littoria shells from NA 103, yrs. B. P. Dr. Marti feels that a reasoable average for these is approximately 450 years B. P. I additio, two oyster shells from SB 108 were dated ad they gave ages of years B. P. ad years B. P. respectively. Sice those oysters were livig i lagoos where there was restricted turover of decayig orgaic matter these older ages may be apparet rather tha real. The dates from the littoria ad dosiia shells are believed to be the most reliable. -5-

6 The site has yielded a cosiderable amout of glass, most of which is gree wie bottle glass, ad a few pieces of thi white glass fragmets showig patiatio. A small amout of white porcelai ware with itricate detritic crack _4_ Eough pottery recostructio has bee doe to ostablish certai facts as to vessel shapes. The usual vessel is the hemispherical bowl i all sizes up to about 2 feet i diameter. A oticeable umber of squeezed-eck (olla) vessels have bee foud. Lip otchig is fairly commo o both plai ad icised rim sherds. Most vessel bases are roud with small, thick basal ubs. There is some evidece to idicate that a rare few vessels have coical bases i the traditio of the Southeast Woodlad culture. No flat-bottomed vessel has bee see so far. About a doze iterestig sherds of thi red sad-tempered or mixedtempered pottery represetig four distict vessels are foud to be impressed with the hollow eds of two sizes of cae stalk -- the smaller beig impressed iside the larger circle. Oe sherd from such a vessel (i this case cariated) icorporates cross-hatched lies toward the lip above the cae puctate. This pottery is kow to the Caddoa coutry, particularly i North Louisiaa. The presece of Caddoa pottery i a coastal site comes as o surprise i view of certai documetary evideces which date back to the daw of historic time. I his "La Relatio" Cabeza de Vaca, who lived amog the Idias of Galvesto Islad betwee 1528 ad 1532, wrote of umerous visits to the "Charrucos" of the "far iterior", where he bartered the ",ea sails, cochs, sea-beads", etc. of his coastal "Capoque Idias for "skis, red ochre which they rub o their faces, hard caes for arrows, flit for arrowheads, siews, ad deer hair tassels". The red ochre is obviously the iro ore kow as hematite, which, at the earest source, would have bee obtaied i the Caddoa area of East. The part of De la Harpers Joural which deals with the advetures of the youg Frech officer, Simars de Belle Isle, says that, after beig held captive for about two years by coastal Idias i the Galvesto Bay eviros, de Belle Isle was rescued i 1721 by Caddo Idias ad retured to the Frech settlemet at Natchitoches, Louisiaa; thece to New Orleas. I his writigs from Natchitoches, Dr. Joh Sibley, the first Uited States Idia aget i the Orleas territory ( ) presets a brief but surprisigly accurate ethological sketch of the coast "Carrakawas (who) occupy the mouths of the Brasos ad the beautiful bayou Los Buros, ad the iterveig coutry". Sice Dr. Sibley was ever kow to have left the coutry of his Caddoa charges after his arrival there from the East i 1803, it is assumed that his kowledge of this subject came either from direct Idia visitatios or through iformatio gaied from a acultural group. Dr. J. O. Dyer of Galvesto (1917), recordig the period of 1817 to 1820, says of the "Caracahua" Idias, "Formerly they traded for flits with the Atakapa, rather tha make a warlike or peaceable jourey ito the lads of the tribes to the orth of them such as the Wekocs, Ketchics, ad others of the Caddo Cofederatio". I the same text Dyer says, "The Atakapa of Lake Charles i their itercourse with the whites spoke the Gaddoa dialect, though' possibly they had their ow togue; a few of the words, especially those relatig to fish ad fishig, were idetical with the aciet Caracahua words". would appear that sice earliest historic time, ad probably log before, some form of commuicatio ad some degree of commerce existed betwee the iterior Caddoa bads ad the seacoast Idias of. Miscellaeous Cultural Materials Site 41 GV5 has yielded a cosiderable amout of asphaltum lumps ad pellets. is evidet from the clea, rouded forms that most of these objects have bee rolled i the had. Asphaltum has bee see o decoratios ad waterproofig (7) of pottery ad was used as a adhesive o oe two-piece fishhook. has yet to be see as a adhesive o flit projectile poits, as is observed quite commoly i sites farther ilad. The midde soil also cotais a large amout of pumice, most of which is rouded by ocea wear ad staied dark o the exterior by the soil. A few smooth ad grooved sadstoe pieces have bee foud. is apparet that both the pumice ad the sadstoe served as abrasives. is possible that some of the rouded pumice stoes were used i shapig wet clay bowl iteriors. Europea Matrials

7 lies has bee foud. A few sherds of glazed molasses ad krout jars have bee recovered, these beig the first of the Europea materials which ca positively be placed i cotrolled excavatio. They were at the grass root level. A cosiderable amout of iro has bee recovered, cosistig of square railroad spikes, ails of may kids, broke plow ad harrow equipmet, pieces of a wood burig stove, the blades of a coffee bea grider ad peculiar copper alloys which may represet oramets of saddles, carriages, or haresses. Europea - Idia Artifact A recetly disturbed square i the burial area which produced scores of Idia potsherds ad two Perdiz arrowpoits also yielded a broke gray Europea molded clay pipe. This pipe cosists of a bowl with a very short collared stem so the ower could isert his ow cae stem. This type of pipe was maufactured i Europe ad traded heavily with Idia tribes all over North America. has bee foud i positio with Goose Creek potsherds, bottle glass ad porcelai ware at a suspected historic cotact site at Smith Poit, Chambers Couty,. has bee foud i Caddo Idia graves (most of the people buried i woode caskets with everythig but the kitche sik throw i behid) i North Louisiaa which date precisely betwee 1803 ad The presece of this artifact at Jamaica Beach suggests some phase of occupatio to have bee very late. However, judgmet is withheld util further ivestigatio. Uidetified Pottery About two doze sherds of a uglazed type of pottery - both mold pottery ad wheel pottery - presets a problem of idetificatio. Most of it is red ad resembles a flower pot, which it may be. A few sherds are brow ad gray-brow ad somewhat porous. The quality of this obviously Europea or Europea-ispired ware is barely superior to the best of the Idia potsherds foud at Jamaica Beach. Photogrammetric Observatios I recet weeks a aerial photograph has bee give by Jack Amma, photogrammetric egieer of Sa Atoio. This photo, made i Jauary 1954, several years before the acqusitio of the property by the Jamaica Beach Developmet Compay, shows that the etire Idia site 41 GV5 has bee tured by the plow. Tho part of the site which lies o the Jamaica Beach Developmet Compay lad showed clear marks of watermelo rows eve before the aerial photo was received. The adjoiig properties did ot show sigs of cultivatio ad seemed to hold promise for providig a clea stratigraphic record of cultural materials. However, the aerial photograph proves that the etire site has bee disturbed to the depth reached by the types of plows that were used util a decade ago. Nho Are These Idias! is perhaps ufortuate that the Jamaica Beach (41GV5) site has received so much ewspaper, radio ad televisio publicity as a Karakawa Idia site. seems quite likely that these are Karakawas, eve though positive idetificatio has ot bee made. Certaily some or much of the pottery is i the traditio of Rockport ceramics, which are idetified with historic Karakawa Idias at the Live Oak Poit site i Arasas Couty, (T. N. Campbell, 1958) ad also the appearace of geographical ames o old maps of the immediate area showig such features as "Caracahua bayou, lake, poit, reef, ad cove" did ot come about by accidet. Nor is the moumet o the Ostermayer property earby, erected some 50 years ago by a historical society, citig the attack o a bad of Karakawa Idias by Jea Lafittets me i 1821 ay mere coicidece. This is the locale of oe of the Karakawa groups, or at least of a group of Idias whom Europeas of various atioalities from the time of Oabcza do Vaca i 1528 util shortly after the battle of Sa Jacito i 1836 kew as Karakawa (as cotrasted to the Atakapa, Tokawa, etc.) While it is etirely possible, it seems ulikely that the Jamaica Beach Idia is merely a strager who wadered ito this area briefly durig Karakawa occupacy or durig pre- Karakawa time. The arrowpoit aspect of this site does ot ted to push it so far back i time as greatly to pre-date Cabeza de Vaca but, o the other had, the paucity of Europea cotact data at Jamaica Beach is puzzlig. The fact remais that the Jamaica Beach Idia will ultimately be called by the ame which the archaeological data seem to satisfy best at the ed of the ivestigatio. Perhaps this will be Karakawa maybe ot.

8 7Z:314:" 4.1.S"7>0 Z/ et_ ro r Zi7 &c r" /0 (e."-; ic 3 Jue 14, ?-7, 9/0=5 Dear Dr. Campbell ad Associates: Re: Addedum to Jamaica Beach (41 GV5) Site Report i H. A.S. Newsletter There is the tedecy, that oce a prelimiary arckaogical site report is filed, it is't followed up with the fial detailed report util may years later, if ever. Sice the Jamaica Beach site 41 GV5 operatios seem to have bee abadoed more tha two moths ago, it would seem advisable to brig the kow factual iformatio to a fial tally. The followig data which ca be cosidered as a "Addedum" to the prelimiary report of the Jamaica Beach. (41 GV5) site published i the Housto Archeological Society Newsletter, NUMBER 10, uder the title "Opeed by Accidet:;COcered with the subjects of "The Skeletal Remais" (pg 4) ad "Boos ad Atler" (pg 5). This is the oly ew data ad may represet the ultimate. The A.ddeadur: O March 24, 1963 two more skeletos were foud at site 41 0V5, makig a total of 19. The two ew fids were adults. Thus there were 17 adults ad 2 childre recovered from the site. All 19 skeletos were foud i a area of roughly 30 feet square. Both of the ew adult skeletos were fully flexed except to the extet that oe had his right arm exteded betwee his flexed legs. Both were placed o their right sides i stadard orietatio (head u./44,tad pelvis east). Oe idividual had i place a ecklace cosistig of two hollow icised boes (appear to be cut from radius boes of a dog?) plus a smoothly tooled ad perforated dog tooth pedat. Apparetly these were suspeded aroud the eck at burial. Additioally, there were i the viciity of ad lyig parallel to the left forearm, four boe implemets. Two were flat, icised, ad puctate; oe of which was about 9 iches log ad would ordiarily be called a ow/.. The other was oly about 2 to 2-1/2 iches log ad was perforated at the arrowest ed; a boe pedat. The third was flat ad puctate o oe ed comig; to a roud thi poit o the other. The fourth was thi ad woud all the way ad decorated (icised w/some puctate) These last two artifacts described may have bee pis, or eedles, or hairpis, or eve awls. There was also oe tiy crude Perdis arrowpoit i the viciity of (but ot i cotact with) the four awl-pi boe artifacts. i mid-jue This completes the 41GV5 site data as I kow it Very truly yours, ERR:b cc: Mott Davis Ed Jelke si -e; c'emiesm -7-p v tirhi e"..i4 if /7.r4AA,..y.

9 WASTE FLAKES FROM OLD RIVER Daiel Hartma Just south of the Highway 73 bridge crossig the Triity River, there is a small islad i Old River where about two hudred waste flakes were foud, apparetly made with a mallet ad puch. is ot commo i this area to fid so may waste flakes o such a small site. The flakes rage i legth from a quarter of a ich to three ad a quarter iches. The islad at low tide is about oe hudred feet log ad forty feet wide. There are two more islads ear the mai islad, but oly oe has a midde o it ad othig has bee foud o it. About sevety arrowheads were foud which Wei.e maily well flaked Pordiz Poits ragig i lo5th from half a-ich to a ich ad a half. A few flit scrapers were foud ad may broke pio03-of pottery, mostly Goose Creek were. A BOATSTONE AND PLUMB E,OB FROM LAKE STUENSON Daiel Hartma O the shore of Lake Steveso o Smith Poit, I foud o a small site, a boatstoe believed to have bee used as a ceremoial piece or as a weight for a atlatl. Near the boatstoe there was a plumb bob that ay have bee used as a bolas stoe or a fishig weight. Near the plumb bob there were throe hammerstoes. The boatstoe is 71 millimeters log, 26 millimeters high at the highest poit 5,41.0WPWAre,.43 I. ( 4. lit t's ad 26 millimeters wide. R. E. Deiso of the Uiversity of Geological Departmet idetified the stoe as basalt. Tho earest source of basalt is i the Pahadle. The top of the boatstoe has a large cavity, which is 60 millimeters log at the top ad 10 millimeters deep. The cavity eds with a getle slope at each ed. Each of the boatstoefs eds is flat ad semicircular. The bottom of the boatstoe is rouded ad has a groove ear each ed. The grooves may have bee used to hold the boatstoe o the atlatl. is ot commo for ay boatstoe to have grooves like this. To fid a boatstoe i this area is very uusual. Thq plumb bob is made of hematite ad weighs 75 grams. The earest place hematite ca be foud is Oklahoma, where it breaks off from large deposits ad washes ito rivers ad is eroded ito shapes that ca easily be made ito weights. The artifact is 57 millimeters log ad is shaped like a elogated pedulum with a groove at oe ed, which was probably the oly place the Idias worked o. Weights like this have bee foud at the Poverty Poit site. Hematite, the material from which the plumb bob is made, is a oxide of iro. is black, though whe rubbed agaist a rough surface it produces a red mark. Some Idias used it as a colorig for their rock paitigs. -8-

10 THE HOUSTON ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY The Society is cotiuig to welcome cotributios to its library. The library at preset umbers twety-five volumes, the titles of which aro prited below. This listig will be ameded from time to time as ew titles are accumulated. The Society libraria, Miss Shirley Thompso, makes the etire selectio available at each regular mothly meetig, at which books may be checked out from oe meetig to the ext. The members are urged to avail themselves of this source of valuable ad, i some cases, otherwise iaccessible works o archaeology ad related disciplies. BOOK ACQUISITIONS OF THE HOUSTON ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Jauary 1963 Aborigial Navigatio Off the Coasts of Upper ad Baja Califoria, Heizer, Robert F. ad Massey, William C. Athropological Paper No. 39, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute.Preceramic ad Ceramic Cultural Patters i Northwest Virgiia Hollad, C. G. Athropological Paper No. 57, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute A roductio to Plais Apache Archeology - The Dismal River Aspect Guerso, James H. Athropological Paper No. 58, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute Stoe Tipi Rigs i North-Cetral Motaa ad the Adjacet Portio of Alberta, Caada: Their Historical, Ethological ad Archeological Aspects -- Kehoe, Thomas F. Athropological Paper No. 62, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute The Troyville Mouds, Catahoula Parish, La. Walker, Wislow M. Bulleti 113, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute Hadbook of South America Idias, Volume 7, Idex Bulleti 143, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute The Norther ad Cetral Footka Tribes Druckor, Philip Bulleti 144, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute Joural of a Expeditio to the Mauvaisos Torres ad the Upper Missouri i Culbertso, Thaddeus A., edited by McDermott, Joh Fracis, Bulleti 147, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute Symposium o Local Diversity i Iroquois Culture Feto, William N., Editor; Bulleti 149, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute Idex to Schoolcraft's "Idia Tribes of the Uited States" Nichols, Fraces S., Compiler -- Bulleti 152 Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute Prehistoric Settlemet Patters i the Viru Valley, Peru Willey, Gordo R. -- Bulleti 155 Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute Guayri Grammar ad Dictioary with Some Ethological Notes Alphose, Ephriam S. -- Bulleti 162, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute The Die: Origi Myths of the Navaho Idias Obria, Aileo -- Bulleti 163, B. of Am. Eth., Smithsoia -9-

11 The Native Brotherhoods: Moder ertribal Orgaizatios o the Northwest Coast -- Drucker, Philip Bulleti 168, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Is. Excavatios at La Veta, Tabasco, 1955 Drucker, Philip; Heizer, Robert F., Squier, Robert J. Bulleti 170, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia I. The North Alaska Eskimo. A Study i Ecology ad Society. Apecer, Robert F., Bulleti 171 Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute The Taji Totoac. Part I. History, Subsistece, Shelter ad Techology Kelly, Isabel, ad Palerm, Agel -- Publicatio 13 Istitute of Social Athropology, Smithsoia Istitute Idia Tribes of Norther Mato Grosso, Brazil. With Appedix: Athropometry of the Umotia, Nambicuara, ad Iraxe, with Comparative Data from other Norther Mato Grosso Tribes, By Newma, Marshall T. -- Oberg, Kalervo - Publicatio 15, Istitute of Social Athropology, Smithsoia Istitute The Rembert Mouds, Elbert Couty, Georgia Caldwell, Joseph R. River Basi Surveys Paper No. 6, from Bureau of America Ethology, Bulleti 154, pp , pls , Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute The Addicks Dam Site, I. A Archeological Survey of the Addicks Dam Basi, Southeast. Wheat, Joe Be River Basi Surveys Paper No. 4, Pt. I. From Bureau of America Ethology, Bulleti 154, pp , pls 29-47, Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute The Addicks Dam Site, II. Idia Skeletal Remais from the Doerig ad Kobs Sites, Addicks Reservoir, Newma, Marshall T. River Basi Surveys Papers No. 4, Pt. II. From Bureau of America Ethology Bulleti 154, pp , Bureau of America Ethology, Smithsoia Istitute. Guide to the Idetificatio of Certai America Idia Projectile Poits Bell, Robert Special Bulleti No. 2, Oklahoma Athropological Society Aalysis of Idia Village Site Collectios from Louisiaa ad Mississippi Ford, J. A. Athropological Study No. 2, Dept. of Coservatio, Louisiaa Geological Survey Bulleti of the Archeological Society, Vol. 30, 1959 Realm of tho Icas vo Hage, Victor W. -10-

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