STARR SUMMARY OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF IOWA. II9 



Scott County — Continued. 



grammes; extreme length (of head) 88 mm; height at shoulders, 

 39; girth, 85; thickness at shoulders, 24; circumference ot trunk 

 at extremity of lower tip, -^i; length of trunk from tip to angle 

 at mouth, 35; tail length, 29. The animal is represented with 

 feet together, trunk coiled and resting on ground. 



Moioid-builders' Cioth.^y — Each cord of the warp is composed 

 of two double and twisted cords, and the woof of one, which 

 passes between the two parts of the warp, the latter being twisted 

 at each change, allowing the cord to be brought close together so 

 as to cover the woof almost completely. 



Holmes ^^ also gives a cut of a cloth impression from a pot- 

 tery fragment from Iowa. One series of strands appears to be 

 quite rigid while the other has been pliable and appears in the 

 impression only where they cross the rigid series. 



Tablets. — Lack of space forbids any details regarding the tab- 

 lets here. A careful study of them will be published in time. 



Tama County. 



Beal and Loos ^^ explored a mound three miles west of Toledo. 

 Many bones and flint arrow-heads were found ; the bones lay 

 without arrangement; one skull had an arrow-head imbedded in 

 it. 'The bones were all thick and heavy — particularly the small 

 bones. 



Taylor County. 



Proudfit ^38 mentions ''a large grooved celt of unique design" 

 from this county. 



Van Buren County. 



A group of mounds located upon a sharp ridge overlooks the 

 town of Doi/d, near the Des Moines River, in the north-west 

 township of the County. ==74. 193 



Thomas further describes these in his final report, ^^i There 

 are eighteen mounds, circular in form and placed in a nearly 

 straight line on the very crest of a sharp ridge. 



No. I was 25 feet in diameter and 5 feet high; it yielded two 

 gray disks each 4 inches in diameter, a grooved axe, and flint chips. 



No. 7 was 20 feet in diameter and 3^ feet high; it had a 

 central core of hard earth. 



No. 12, with a diameter of 25 feet and a height of 4 feet, con- 



