50 THE PROBLEM OF THE OHIO MOUXDS, 



seem not to bave made many earthen embankments, or walls inclosing 

 areas of land, as is common in Ohio. Their manner of burial was sim- 

 ilar to the Ohio mound-builders, however, and in this particular they 

 had customs similar to the mound-builders of Europe."^ One which 

 he opened in Calhoun County, presented the regular form of the Ohio 

 ^' altar." 



A mound in Franklin County, Ind., described and tigured by Dr. G. 

 W. Homsher,- presents some features strongly resembling those of 

 the North Carolina mounds. 



The works of Cuyahoga County and other sections of northern Ohio 

 bordering the lake, and consisting chieHy of iiiclosures and defensive 

 walls, are of the same type as those of New York, and may be attrib- 

 uted to people of the Iroquoian stock. Possibly they may be the 

 works of the Eries who, we are informed, built inclosures. If such 

 conclusion be accepted it serves to strengthen the opinion that this 

 lost tribe was related to the Iroquois. The works of this type are also 

 found aloug the eastern portion of Michigan as far north as Ogemaw 

 County. 



The box-shaped stone graves of the State are due to the Delawares 

 and Shawnees, chiefly the former, who continued to bur^^ in sepulchers 

 of this type after their return from the East. Those in Ashland and 

 some other counties, as is well known, mark the location of villages of 

 this tribe. Those along the Ohio, which are chiefly sporadic, are prob- 

 ably Shawnee burial places, and older than those of the Delawares. 

 The bands of the Shawnees which settled in the Scioto Valley appear 

 to have abandoned this method of burial. 



There are certain mounds consisting entirely or in part of stone, and 

 also stone graves or vaults of a peculiar type, found in the extreme 

 southern portions of the State and in the northern part of Kentucky, 

 which can not be connected with any ether works, and probably owe 

 their origin to a people who either became extinct or merged into some 

 other tribe so far back that no tradition of them now remains. 



Eecently a resurvey of the remaining circular, square, and octagonal 

 works of Ohio has been made by the Bureau agents. The result will 

 be given in a future bulletin, 



' Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 29th (Boston) meeting, 1880 (IdSl), p. 715. 

 - Smithsonian Report for 1882 (1884), p. 722. 



