ABORIGINAL EEMAINS IN THE UNITED STATES. 445 



Low, Charles F. Eeports upon the explorations at Madisonville, Ohio, 

 mentioned by Dr. Metz, having exhumed .370 skeletons and explored 

 175 ash-pits. 



Maclean, J. P. Mentions several pieces of cloth from a mound in 

 Butler County, Ohio. 



Metz, C. L. Eeports the opening of twenty-five circular pits in a ceme- 

 tery near IMadisonville, Ohio, containing ashes, animal remains, im- 

 plements of flint, stone, and bone. The depth of the pits, from 4 to G 

 feet ; the width, 3 feet ; the sides and bottom show no evidence of fire. 

 Some contain likewise large sherds of pottery and unio shells. The 

 contents are usually as follows : One to three feet ashes, containing 

 bone, flint, and some stone implements, with sherds of pottery and 

 animal remains. Above this is a heavy layer of clay loam, 1 to 4 feet 

 thick. None of the implements show the action of fire, manj^ fine 

 bone awls having been found ', nor are the animal remains charred at 

 all. A few burnt bones were probably thrown in with the ashes. 

 (Detailed reports, in the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of jSTatnral 

 History, vol. iii, pp. 40-68 ; 128-139 ; 203-220.) 



Morgan, B. Describes the Des Moines Valley as rich in mounds and 

 relics. He has excavated more than one hundred works in different 

 parts of the State. From these have been collected stone implements 

 and pottery. In some of the works examined there are indications of 

 great age. The writer, has opened mounds near Eichland, Iowa, meas- 

 uring 250 feet in base circumference and 2 feet in height. At a depth 

 of about 20 inches pottery was found, some of the vessels very large 

 and shaped lilce a common dinner pot. Around the rim frequently 

 occurs a narrow band, divided into triangular spaces, which are filled 

 with parallel lines running vertically and horizontally in the alternate 

 triangles. 



Palmer, Edward. Has forwarded a mummy from Monterey, Mex., 

 presented to the Smithsonian Institntion by Don Ignacio Galerido. It 

 was procured from a cave near Coyote, in Coahuila, latitude 25° 15', 

 longitude 103 west from Gr., near the western border of the State. It 

 is encased in a garment much like that of the ancient Peruvians. In 

 the States of Dnrango aTid Chihuahua, Mex., there are said to be caves 

 containing Indian remains. 



Previe, Frederick, Jr. Describes a mound at Waynesborough, Au- 

 gusta County, Virginia, 500 feet long, 250 feet wide, and 40 feet high, 

 close to the Chesapeake and Ohio Eailroad, on the south side, and 2^ 

 miles west of Eockfish Gap tunnel, 



Eansburg, W. C. Is making a thorough survey of the La Porte group 

 of mounds in Indiana. 



Eedding, B. B. Mentions an obsidian spear-head, 7 inches long, 3^ 

 inches wide, found beneath the drift and boulders which compose the 

 placer diggings. Mr. Eedding regards this implement as an evidence 

 of the existence of pliocene man in California. 



