PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 827 



Gray, William. — Is studying the prehistoric relics of Kingsbury 

 County, Dakota Territory. Many evidences of ancient habitation ex- 

 ist here and should be saved to history while they are accessible. 



Luttrell, Elston. — In Calhoun and Talladega Counties, Alabama, 

 mounds, stone implements, sculptures, &c., abound. Two and a half 

 miles east, and thence five-eighths of a mile south from Oxford, Cal- 

 houn County, is a large isolated mound. It lies about 300 yards 

 from Choccolocco Creek, on the Caver place. It has never been exam- 

 ined; it is about 20 feet in vertical height, and has a large, flat sur- 

 face on top. The perimeter is an ellipse, the major axis of which is about 

 100 feet and the minor axis about 75 feet. On the west side, a few feet 

 from the base, is an excavation or mardelle. The interior has never 

 been examined. There is a group of mounds, orderly arranged, 15 

 miles southwest of Oxford. They lie on the south bank of Choccolocco 

 Creek. Pipes and stone implements are found in the vicinity. At the 

 Elston Store place, in an excavation for a cellar, a body was found buried 

 in a sitting posture, and many stone implements were also found in the 

 grave. 



Mackie, Joseph S. — Writes from Lima, Peru, describing observations 

 made at Chorillo, on the coast, at a point forming an equilateral triangle 

 with Callao and Lima. Passing up the sandy hillside on one occasion 

 he observed a scrap of cloth protruding, and immediately dug it out. 

 The fabric was of the peculiar Peruvian embroidery, on which were 

 wrought fierce animals in a threatening attitude. Inclosed was the 

 mummy of a female child not more than two days old. The continuation 

 of the digging revealed a large quantity of bones wrapped in nets, the 

 bundles resembling dumb-bells — the head at one end, the long bones in 

 the middle, and the small bones at the other end. 



MacLean, J. P., writing about the great Cahokia mound, says : 



"Almost everywhere on its sides you can pick up fragments of pottery, 

 broken bones, and white or milk chert chips. Some of the pottery is 

 decorated. I found the frontal bone of a human skull on the side of the 

 mound. 



"In vol. II, Peabody Museum Eeport, p. 474, will be found a cut of 

 the Cahokia mound. While this restoration is a good one, yet it is not 

 accurate. I came to the opinion that on this mound were four temples, 

 representing four orders of priests, the highest order erecting their tem- 

 ple on the uj)per platform. 



"The lowest platform is not a graded way, as represented by An- 

 cient Monuments, page 174. No evidence of a graded way presents 

 itself at any place. On the west side I discovered traces of baked 

 bricks. 



" Professor Putnam is guilty of an amusing oversight (p. 471) in call- 

 ing attention to the fact that its exact location is not given by writers who 

 have attempted to desciibe the mound, and then neglects to do so him- 

 self, although he visited it. It is located in Madison County, Illinois, 



