560 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



sided. From the appearance of the earth one would be strongly in- 

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

 intensity. From the position of the skulls with reference to oue an- 

 other, the feet of oue body would reach to the head of the next, if laid 

 at full length. One of the skulls was rather thinner than those we usu- 

 ally fiud in other mounds. Some of the teeth evidently belonged to a 

 person of great age, while others were very small, but I cannot say that 

 they belonged to an infant. The skulls were in fragments, the largest 

 piece obtaiued being about 2 inches square. 



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

 tion 12, township 11, range 4 east, and extending across the northwest 

 corner of section 7, township 11, range 5, and also some distance on 

 section G, township 11, are thirteen common round mounds, varying in 

 height from 18 inches to 5 feet. As ftir as examined these are burial 

 mounds, and nineteen skeletons were found in one of them. This mound 

 was 45 feet in diameter and 5 feet high. 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-roclc, and small water-worn pebbles, which I suppose to 

 be jasper or something of that character, and in the largest mound was 

 discovered a very small fragment of red pottery. 



On the high bluft' between Spoon River and Walnut Creek, on the 

 south line of the southeast quarter section C, township 11 north, range 

 56, 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 

 three rods north of the sectional line between sections 6 and 7, and 60 

 rods west of the east line of section 6. (The land is owned by Henry 

 Jaques.) I opened this mound at the apex, and at a depth of 2 feet 

 found quite an amount of ashes, also one piece of trap-rock of irregular 

 shape, and about the size of a small boy's head -, also a honestone 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 charcoal, 10 inches deep, intermingled with ashes. 

 I also made an 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 ap- 

 parent height, above the surrounding level, of 3 feet. I made an 

 opening in the center of this mound, 4J 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 

 having been rammed or packed while in a plastic state. Below the clay 

 is a thin stratum of red paint, and below the paint were ashes and paint in- 

 termingled. In this material were found fourteen arrow points made of 

 honestone, all of the leaf pattern except one, and this was 3i inches long, 

 with notches at the base, and had the appearance of having been used; 



