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Muscatine County — Continued. 



four feet apart — lying horizontally.) One valve oi nnio ? about a 

 foot from one of the sea-shells. A cluster of shell beads, globular, 

 three or four inches in diameter and containing 200 to 300 beads; 

 badly decayed ; they vary from y^ x ^ inch to r^^ x 14^. Two feet 

 from one sea-shell and four from the other were two vessels, round, 

 with round bottom, (i). Uniformly ;§ inch thickness; thicker 

 at rim; firm, fine clay, mica, and shell fragments; no sand; 

 many minute cavities; dark in color; somewhat polished on ex- 

 terior; neck smooth; rest of surface with \' ornamentation. In- 

 side measures: at top, 3.75; ^ inch down, 3.25; 2^ inches 

 down, 5.4; 5 inches deep; capacity i quart. 



(2). Coarser, more fragile; from V?, to i^ inch thick. Red- 

 dish clay and crushed granite; no shells; not porous; grains of 

 quartz and feldspar (?); light red; blackish near top. Plain; 

 5.25 inches at rim; 6 inches at 3 inches down ; 6.5 inches deep; 

 tapers below like small end of &^,%\ capacity 2 quarts. 



(3). Fragments of a third; red clay, sand and shell; better 

 than (2); some indentation ornament. Human teeth were taken 

 from two points at about the same depth as the relics. Appar- 

 ently from two individuals, 8 to 10 feet apart. Two teeth are in 

 the posterior part of the right side ot the lower jaw. 



Davenport ])arties excavated a mound in the Lowry farm 

 group in 1S75. Considerable charcoal was scattered throughout 

 the earth of which the mound was composed ; no ashes were seen ; 

 at 7 feet down was a part of the forward portion of a human skull 

 from which at least seven )-ondeUes had been cut; the bone Avas 

 well preserved. No other objects were found except scattered 

 fragments of bones within 2 or 3 feet of the surface, and a single 

 small shell bead at 6 feet down. 



if). One-half mile below Pine Creek a group of about fifteen 

 mounds on a high ridge. One of them is nearly 20 feet high. 

 North of it are two elongated mounds about 4 feet high, 5 feet 

 wide and twenty feet long. One conical mound yielded, at about 

 2 feet depth, two-thirds of an earthen vase; at 14 feet, remains of 

 six persons. The bodies had been arranged radiatingly, feet in- 

 ward, about a large sea-shell — Cassis madagascarensis .'^'^ 



Harrison 74 examined these, opening the second one in size; 

 it was circular, 50 feet in diameter, 9 feet high; it was composed 



