536 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Near the Dortliwest corner of section 18, township 55, range 6 west, 

 is an isolated conical bill, called the "Eound Knob." Its crest is a nar- 

 row ridge about 150 yards long, on which are four mounds. The north- 

 ern one was much the largest, and forty years ago portions of a dry 

 wall still were standing, 4 to 5 feet in height. Human remains were 

 found in all these mounds. 



In section 24, northeast quarter, township 55, range 7, and on the oppo- 

 site side (the left) of the river, is a similar but smaller hill, called "Wil- 

 son's Knob." Its crest is about 120 feet long, completely covered with 

 stone to the depth of several feet, the pile being about 20 feet wide. On 

 examination, made recently, it was found to have been originally a row of 

 burial-places, nine in number, circular in form, each from 8 to 9 feet in 

 diameter (inner measure), contiguous to each other. The remains of the 

 walls still stand to the height of about 20 inches. Judging from ajjpear- 

 ances, it would seem that each had been of a conical or dome-like form. 

 They were composed wholly of stone, and the remains found in them 

 were almost wholly decomposed. 



On the top of an opposite ridge to the west is another row, four in 

 number, similar to those just described, except that the cists are square 

 instead of circular, the sides being equal to the diameter of the former. 

 In these also only small fragments of bones could be found. These 

 last have been examined within a few days. 



On the left bank of the river, about 1 mile below the "Eound Knob" 

 above referred to, are what are known as ''The Painted Rocks," a num- 

 ber of rough representations of the human figure, about 20 inches in 

 height. They are drawn on the face of the bluff, which overhangs so 

 as to afford almost complete protection from the weather. This bluff 

 rises 180 to 200 feet above the bed of the stream, and these drawings 

 are 60 or 70 feet below the top. At the foot of the bluff are large masses 

 of fallen rock and earth, filling up between the river and the blufl^", and 

 rising within 30 feet of the drawings. The central human figure is 

 somewhat larger than the others, who are represented as approaching 

 Mm in Indian file. 



A single mound was found on the northwest corner of the southwest 

 quarter section 12, township 55, range 7, on the point of a secondary 

 ridge, near a small northern tributary of Salt River. It contained two 

 skeletons, one with the head east, the other west. Beneath one of these 

 a trench had been dug and filled up with stone, on which flat stone had 

 been laid, and on which last the body had been placed. 



