830 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



ble, except in one instance, and that was an angular piece of flint. 

 The pebbles had not been acted upon by the fire, so that they must evi- 

 dently have been placed there after the intense heat of the fire had sub- 

 sided. From the appearance of the earth, one would be strongly inclined 

 to believe that the fire in this instance had been one of unusual intensity. 

 Prom the position of the skulls to each other the feet of one body would 

 reach to his neighbor's head, if laid at full length. One of the skulls 

 was rather thinner than those we usually find in other mounds. Some 

 of the teeth evidently belonged to a person of great age. Other of the 

 teeth were very small, but I cannot say that they belonged to an in- 

 fant. The skulls were in fragments, the largest piece obtained being 

 about 2 inches square. 



On another " hog-back," east of the one described, commencing on 

 Sec. 12, T. 11, E. 4, E., extending across the NW. corner of Sec. 7, T. 11, 

 E. 5, and also some distance on *>ec. 6, T. 11, are thirteen common round 

 mounds, varying in height from 18 inches to 5 feet. As far as examined 

 these are burial mounds, and in one mound I found nineteen skeletons. 

 This mound was 45 feet in diameter, and 5 feet in height. The bones 

 in it were in a fair state of preservation. I opened four or five of this 

 group, and in each were found pieces of trap-rock from 1£ to 2 inches 

 square, pieces of burnt sand-rock, small water- worn pebbles, which I 

 supposed to be jasper or something of that character, and in the largest 

 mound a very small fragment of red pottery. 



Ou the high bluff between Spoon Eiver and Walnut Creek, on the 

 south line of the SE. £ of Sec. 6, T. 11 K, E. 5 E., are three mounds of 

 some importance. The first is a common round mound, 3£ feet high, 

 with a base diameter of 40 feet. This mound is 3 rods north of the sec- 

 tional line between Sec. 6 and 7, and 60 rods west of the east line of Sec. 

 6. The land is owned by Mr. Henry Jacques. I opened this mound at 

 the apex, and at a depth of 2 feet found quite au amount of ashes ; also 

 one piece of trap-rock of irregular shape, about the size of a small 

 boy's head, and a hornstone arrow-point of the leaf-shape pattern. 

 Eight feet east of this is a mound 62 feet long and 19 feet wide, with 

 the greatest length from southwest to northeast. I made a cross-cut 

 of this mound at the middle, and in the center found a bed of char- 

 coal, 10 inches deep, intermingled with ashes. I also made au opening 

 near the east end, and found nothing. Twenty rods east of this, on 

 the sectional line, is an oblong mound, measuring 64 feet from west to 

 east and 47 feet from north to south, with an apparent height above 

 the surrounding level of 3 feet. I made an opening in the center of 

 this mound, 4^ feet in diameter, and at a depth of 2 feet I found some 

 ashes and fragments of stone, which had been polished, and 3 inches of 

 yellow clay. This clay has the appearance of its having been rammed 

 or packed while in a plastic state. Below the packed clay is a thin 

 stratum of red paint, and below the paint, ashes and paint inter- 

 mingled. In this material we found fourteen arrow-points made of 



