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THE WINNEBAGO TRIBE 



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along the Wisconsin River and west of it to the Mississippi, and, at the 

 same time, occupying the territory south of Lake Winnebago through 

 the region of the Four Lakes, the shores of Lake Koshkonong and 

 farther down along the Rock River into lUinois. Their eastern 

 boundary was determined by the PotaM'atomi. 



Let us return now to the distribution of the mounds. Of the three 

 kinds of mounds found in Wisconsin, the conical and oval ones are the 



Fig 3.— map or WISCONSIN, SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF EFFIGY MOUNDS. 



commonest, and they are met with in practically every county of the 

 State in which records have been made. They have also been found 

 in Minnesota. The so-called effigy mounds, on the other hand, 

 have never been found north of a line drawn through the southern 

 boundary of Lincohi Count}-. The}' have, however, been found in 

 every area which the Winnebago occupied at one time or another^ 



