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  ANNUAL 
  KEPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1927 
  

  

  

  Zoo 
  voo 
  

  

  FffT 
  

  

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  <^ 
  

  

  

  

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  f*| 
  

  

  Ife 
  * 
  • 
  --^^^ 
  i'lw 
  ft. 
  

  

  

  

  P 
  

   y 
  

  

  Fig. 
  7. 
  — 
  Foiiner 
  group 
  of 
  mounds 
  at 
  St. 
  Louis, 
  Mo. 
  (After 
  Bushuell) 
  

  

  monial 
  grounds 
  and 
  imposing 
  mounds 
  like 
  those 
  of 
  Cahokia 
  or 
  

   Nanih-waiya 
  (pis. 
  6 
  and 
  7) 
  presuppose 
  advanced 
  religious 
  beliefs 
  

   and 
  a 
  much 
  more 
  elaborate 
  ritual 
  than 
  any 
  thought 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  in 
  

   existence 
  among 
  the 
  tribes 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  region. 
  A 
  few 
  early 
  writers, 
  

  

  