STARR — SUMMARY OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF IOWA. 6 1 



Allamakee County — Continued. 



the river. The designs were incised and then painted; several 

 human heads, snakes, animals, canoes, and the like occur; also 

 one bird (?) measuring 6x15 inches (Fig. 2). No. 3 is in a 

 ledge 100 feet above the river, three or four miles below Lansing, 

 in N.-E. j^ Sec. 3, Twp. 98, R. 3 W. Here are simply two 

 fissures, which formerly bore a large number of designs — men, 

 animals, snakes, birds, human feet, tracks of birds and animals, 

 human faces, canoes, etc. — but few are left. One design a})i:)ears 

 to represent some sort of'bird; it measures 14x19 inches (Fig. 3). 



From the An' ual Cvclopaedia. Copyright, 1890, by D. Appletoa & Co. 



Fig. 3. 



This last locality is apparently the one referred to by Mallery 7i 

 as fifteen miles south from New Albia. 



Alexander « further speaks indefinitely of other works and 

 relics. According to him, circular (and one rectangular) enclos- 



LPboo. D. a. N. S., Vol. VI.J 8 [February IB, 1895 ] 



