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WINNEBAGO ARCHEOLOGY 



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The Fort Atkinson intaglio is the only one now in existence. 

 "Its greatest depth (at the middle of the body) is slightly over 2 

 feet. The great tail of the animal reaches to within about 25 feet 

 of a fine large conical burial mound." '° 



Conical Mounds 



These are found all over the territory once occupied by the Winne- 

 bago, but we know definitely that the 

 Central Algonquian tribes also erected 

 them. In the following section we 

 will describe but one group of these 

 mounds found on territory formerly 

 inhabited by the Winnebago and 

 which was never, or only for a very 

 short time, occupied by other tribes 

 (pl. 14). 



This interesting group was located in Angelo Township, Juneau 

 County, and is known as Mound Prairie, West Group (Fig. 6)- 

 Twelve mounds are preserved there with the following dimensions: 



F:g.5.— BEAR EFFIGY MOUND, MADI- 

 SON, WIS. 



K 



B 



IM 



loo FT- 

 i —I 



H/CHWAY 



Fig. 6— BURL\L MOUNDS, UPPER BARABOO VALLEY, WIS. 



A 53 feet in diameter. 

 B 48 feet in diameter. 

 C 48 feet in diameter. 

 D 45 feet in diameter. 

 E 44 feet in diameter. 

 G 48 feet in diameter. 



H 46 feet in diameter. 

 I 45 feet in diameter. 

 J 42 feet in diameter. 

 K 65 by .30 feet. 

 L 46 feet in diameter. 

 M 38 feet in diameter. 



"C. E. Brown, '* The Intaglio Mounds of Wisconsin," Wisconsin .\rcheologist, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 9. 



