ANTIQUITIES IN WISCONSIN. 239 



ANTIQUITIES I\ WISCONSIN. 



By Moses Strong, of Mineral Point, Wis. 



Traces of tbe mound-builders are found extending northward in 

 Dunn, Barron, Polk, Burnett, and Douglas Counties. The localities, 

 however, are not numerous, and the mounds are usually circular. 



Commencing in the territory south of that above indicated, the mound 

 shown in Fig. 1 was observed a short distance west of the village of 

 Orion, in Eichland County. It is situated on the southeast quarter of 

 section 35, township 9, range 1 west, on a low, sandy ridge, which sep- 

 arates the Wisconsin and Eagle Eivers; and about a quarter of a mile 

 northwest of it is the mound shown in Fig. 2. 



It is, perhaps, an open question whether these mounds are efiBgies of 

 men or birds, but after a careful examination of them and of many others, 

 I incline to think they are representations of the human form. 



So much, and so much only, of the article of Mr. Strong, on the pre- 

 historic mounds of the western part of Wisconsin, bad been written by 

 him before the 1st of August, 1877. On the 18th of that month, while 

 engaged in the prosecution of his geological researches, he was drowned 

 in the Flambeau, a branch of the Chippewa Eiver, leaving unfinished 

 the article of which he had commenced the preparation. The field-book 

 left by him contains, however, the notes of his examinations of several 

 mounds, with rough pencil sketches of their forms and dimensions. These 

 notes and sketches being in my possession as his father and administra- 

 tor, I have had drawings prepared representing the mounds, which, with 

 copies of the original field-notes explanatory of them, are herewith sub- 

 mitted. 



Fig. 3 is a sketch representing mounds near Wauzeka, in Crawford 

 County, which are referred to in the field notes, as follows; "The fol- 

 lowing shows a number of mounds near Wauzeka. There is only one 

 which is at all remarkable in appearance ; the rest are the usual round 

 and straight mounds. The large one has been excavated in three places 

 and scraped away on its western end. It seems to consist principally of 

 sand. Examined May 31, 1875." 



The accompanying pencil-sketch (Fig. 4) was made by Mr. Strong, on 

 a scale of 120 feet to the inch, from his notes, and is given as he prepared 

 it, instead of attempting to make another draught. 



All that is contained in the field-notes concerning this group is written 

 upon the margin of a sketch, and is in these words: "Map of mounds 

 at Hazen's Corners, on the Black Eiver road, made June 5, 1875, in K. E. 

 ^ sec. 35, T. 8, E. G W. The mounds lie in the brush and woods, on the 

 crest of the ridge." 



The sketch of Fig. 5 was also made by Mr. Strong, in pencil, and is 

 given as he prepared it, together with the following in relation to it, 

 which is all the field-notes contain : " N. E. I of sec. 21, T. 8, E. G W. ; 



