PRINCIPAL MOUNDS IN THE DES MOINES VALLEY. 



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shells, pieces of pottery, broken arrow-heads, bones of animals, such as 

 deer, wolf or dog and bear, and birds of various kinds. 



No. 2. Mound in northeast quarter of southeast quarter of section 3, 10 

 rods, N., GOO w. 



No. 2. On bluff point 100 feet above river bed, 200 feet from water's 

 edge; timber, large white oak and young jack oak. In this mound 

 found human skull entire except lower jaw, and leg bones; also frag- 

 ments of pottery. Position of head southeast, 2 feet under mound sur- 

 face. 



Diagram B. 



MOUNDS, NEAR KEOSAUQUA AND PITT8BUUG, VAN' BUEES COUNTY, IOWA. 



Explanations. 



A bluff extends over sections 2 and :?, township 68, range 10. 



Mounds on sections are known as Ely b'ord mounds, from their vicinity to creek 

 and old ford. 

 The square on the creek, near its mouth, is the shell-heap referred to herein. 

 The stream running thr agh Pittsburg is Chequest Creek. 

 Scale: Five- eighths of an inch to the mile. 



No. 3. Half-moon-shaped mound 15 rods, X. 55° W., from No. 2; 200 

 feet from water's edge; found thigh bones. 



No. 4. Mound 15 rods, N. 45° W., from No. 3. No discoveries made 

 except small x)iece of pottery. 



