Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 112 1960 Number 3441 



WELCOME MOUND AND THE EFFIGY PIPES 

 OF THE ADENA PEOPLE 



By Frank M. Setzler 



The expansion of the Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation's 

 Natrium Plant near New Martinsville, West Virginia, required remov- 

 ing two Adena Indian burial mounds on their property. The first, 

 known as "Natrium Mound" (46Mr-2), was carefully excavated in 

 1948 by Ralph S. Solecki (Solecki, 1953); the second, "Welcome 

 Mound" (named after the community "Welcome," 46Mr-3), was 

 excavated by me in 1957. 



Appreciating the need to preserve a detailed record of the contents 

 of such prehistoric burial sites, Mr. C. E. Wolf, Plant Manager, noti- 

 fied the West Virginia Archeological Society and, through it, the 

 Smithsonian Institution of the impending program of expansion. In 

 addition, the Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation, a subsidiary 

 of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, in 1948 and again in 1957 pro- 

 vided laborers, heavy and light machinery, and tools. The Smith- 

 sonian Institution provided the archeologists. 



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