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ward. All of the lines of this most 3ing:ular effigy are curved gracefully, and much 

 care has been bestowed upon its construction. The head is ornamented with two 

 projections, or horns, giving a comical e.xpression to the whole figure, [fig. 14.] 



Miscellaneous Structures 



Stone chambers. — These are found in a number of places and were 

 apparently always used for burial. According to the present Winne- 

 bago, chiefs were often buried in them (pi. 16). 



Garden beds (fig. 21). — These ... 



were first described by Lapham. 

 According to him ^° they were "low, 

 broad, parallel ridges, as if corn 

 had been planted in drills. They 

 average 4 feet in width, 25 of them 

 having been counted in the space 

 of a hundred feet, and the depth 

 of the walk between them is about 

 6 inches." 



Mr. C. E. Brown also found 

 some which he has described in -' 

 his paper on "Wisconsin Garden 

 Beds:" 



To the southwest . . . was a remnant of 

 a foiu'th plot of beds with 1 1 rows. Their 

 direction was northeast and southwest, and 

 their length then about 52 feet, a portion 

 having been obliterated by the plow. On 

 another plot of ground, lying to the west 

 of that upon which all of the above de- 

 scribed are situated, occurred a fifth plot 

 of beds, ha\ing a northeast and southwest 

 direction. The rows numliered 12 and 



were aliout 48 feet long. A sixth plot of beds, running north and south, numbered 

 28 rows, each about 84 feet long. Its dimensions were about the same as those of the 

 first plot. 



In summing up, Mr. Brown says:*- 



In concluding an examination of the evidence now available upon the subject of 

 the age of the Wisconsin garden beds it may be stated that examples have now been 

 located in 16 different localities in the State. The area in which these occur may be 

 described as being bounded by Green Bay on the north and Racine County on the 

 south, and extending from Lake Michigan westward to the Fox-'Wisconsin waterway. 

 In nearly every instance where garden beds are closely associated with mounds there 

 is good reason to believe that their origin and age is identical. Like the mounds, most 

 garden beds are prehistoric, but some were constructed in early historic times. Their 

 association in some instances with plots of cornhills indicates that in these cases these 

 two features of oui archeology are also contemporaneous. 



so Antiquities of Wiscon.sin. Smithsonian Cont. to Knowledge, vol. vn, p. 19, 18.55. 

 21 Wisconsin .\rcheologist, vol, S, no. S, p. 100. 

 '! Ibid., pp. 104-105. 



Fig. 21.— WISCONSIN GARDEN BEDS. 



