52 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY Lbull. 71 



This represented a type of burial mound encountered farther up the 

 valley of the Ohio, a good example of which formerly stood within 

 the city of Cincinnati. It was " in the center of the upper and lower 

 town, on the edge of the upper bank. The principal street leading 

 from the water is cut through the barrow, and exposes its strata and 

 remains. . . . The dead repose in double horizontal tiers; between 

 each tier are regular layers of sand, flat surface stones, gravel and 

 earth. I counted seven tiers, and might have discovered more. . . . 

 With the dead were buried their ornaments, arms and utensils." 

 (Ashe, (l),pp. 185-190.) 



In the extreme northeastern corner of Indiana, almost due north of 

 the preceding, was another mound of this type. In the southwest 

 corner of Steuben County, on the north shore of Little Turkey Lake, 

 stood a group of 10 small mounds. One of the group was examined 

 and six strata of human remains were revealed, " distinctly separated, 

 by thin strata of earth ; the skeletons lay on their backs, extended full 

 length.^' Neither pottery nor implements occurred with the remains. 

 (Levette, (l),p. 443.) 



Many groups of stone-lined graves have been discovered north of 

 the Ohio. The majority of the groups are quite small and usually 

 occupy a prominent point near a watercourse. 



It is a well-established fact that the Kaskaskia, and undoubtedly 

 members of the other allied Illinois tribes, constructed stone-lined 

 graves on the bluffs near the Mississippi, not far from the mouth of 

 the Kaskaskia River, in Randolph County, Illinois, long after the 

 removal of the Kaskaskia from their ancient village on the upper 

 Illinois, very early in the eighteenth century. Some graves near the 

 old French village of Prairie du Rocher, a short distance above the 

 mouth of the Kaskaskia, were evidently made within a century, as 

 "Mrs. Morude, an old Belgian lady who lives here, informed Mr. 

 Middleton that when they were grading for the foundation of their 

 house she saw skulls with the hair still hanging to them taken from 

 these graves. It is therefore more than probable, and, in fact, is 

 generally understood by the old settlers of this section, who derived 

 the information from their parents, that these are the graves of the 

 Kaskaskia and other Indians who resided here when this part of 

 Illinois began to be settled by the whites." (Thomas, (1), p. 13().) 



The graves found here were of the usual forms, some containing 

 skeletons extended at full length, others holding various bones which 

 had been thus deposited after the removal of all flesh. With some 

 were small earthenware vessels, but little else was associated with the 

 fast crumbling remains. 



As the Algon(]uian tribes are known to have occupied both banks 

 of the Mississippi along this part of its course it is reasonable to 

 attribute the similar graves encountered on the right bank of the 



