﻿ABORIGINAL 
  MOUNDS 
  AND 
  CREEK 
  CUSTOMS 
  SWANTON 
  503 
  

  

  of 
  the 
  greatest 
  prehistoric 
  city 
  of 
  the 
  eastern 
  United 
  States, 
  Cahokia 
  

   (fig. 
  8), 
  to 
  show 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  impossible 
  to 
  suggest 
  an 
  origin 
  for 
  this 
  

   in 
  an 
  extension 
  of 
  the 
  cultural 
  tendencies 
  which 
  we 
  have 
  been 
  tracing. 
  

   There 
  are 
  open 
  spaces 
  in 
  two 
  spots, 
  but 
  the 
  resemblance 
  between 
  this 
  

   collection 
  of 
  mounds 
  and 
  the 
  Creek 
  ceremonial 
  group 
  as 
  known 
  to 
  us 
  

   historically 
  is 
  admittedly 
  distant. 
  Howeyer, 
  it 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  my 
  

  

  Fig. 
  6. 
  — 
  The 
  Taylor 
  Shaiily 
  group 
  of 
  mouuds, 
  Poinsett 
  County, 
  Ark. 
  

   (After 
  Thomas) 
  

  

  object 
  to 
  prove 
  that 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  mound 
  groups 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  

   Valley 
  were 
  Creek 
  or 
  even 
  Creek 
  with 
  variations, 
  but 
  to 
  show 
  that 
  

   the 
  known 
  ceremonial 
  grounds 
  of 
  the 
  Creeks 
  are 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  genus, 
  

   if 
  not 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  species, 
  as 
  the 
  mounds 
  which 
  date 
  from 
  prehistoric 
  

   times. 
  

  

  One 
  obstacle 
  to 
  the 
  acceptance 
  of 
  an 
  identification 
  of 
  the 
  mound 
  

   builders 
  and 
  the 
  Indians 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  assumption 
  that 
  striking 
  cere- 
  

  

  