aver] THE FEWKES GROUP 565 
On the interior of this Sacred Image House, at the doorway, was a 
peculiar arrangement of two posts. A somewhat similar arrange- 
ment appeared in a later building, the House of Mysteries. The use 
of these two posts inside the door is not known. 
TRACE OF AN IMAGE 
In what appeared to be the north wall of this structure was a 
rectangular cavity, a diagram of which is shown in Figure 158. It 
measured 10 inches across the top, 14 inches in height, 10 inches 
across the bottom, and was 3% inches deep. The diagram in Figure 
158 and the photograph in Plate 126, d, both show there was a layer 
of mingled ashes, charcoal, and earth immediately below this cavity, 
and also undisturbed layers of ashes just above the top of the cavity. 
The photograph (pl. 126, d) shows faint traces of these undisturbed 
layers of ashes immediately over this cavity, showing clearly that 
the wooden object which caused the formation of this cavity was 
placed in the wall before the stratified 
and undisturbed ash beds were formed 
above it. Therefore it is not of white- 
man origin. It belongs to the first 
stage of themound. Both the diagram 
and the photograph show very clearly 
that this wooden object was in the line 
of wall. It was, beyond question, an 
object of importance, and was placed 
in a prominent place. Wood was dif- 
ficult for a stone age Indian to work. 
A wooden object so placed in the 
wall would probably be of some real importance. A plaster cast 
was made of a portion of the cavity and the decayed wood found 
therein, which proved to be red cedar, was saved. The size and 
shape faintly suggest an image or idol with a rectangular base, some- 
what similar to the wooden image found in Bell County, Ky., formerly 
in the collection of Col: Bennett H. Young, and now in the Museum 
of the American Indian. From the accounts of early white visitors 
to the southern tribes of the Mississippi Valley it is known that such 
images were often placed in somewhat similar positions on the sides 
of the walls of sacred structures. 
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Fic, 158,—Diagram of cavity 
Two RecranGcuLar PILES OF STONES 
Within this room were found two piles of stones. These are shown 
in the photograph (pl. 126, d) and in the diagram (fig. 157). These 
piles are somewhat irregularly rectangular and were about 15 by 14 
inches and 6 inches in height. The stones comprising the piles 
varied from the size of the fist to five times that large. The indi- 
