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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



Fig. 46.— Inclosure near Sheboygan, SlifbuygaD rounty 

 Wisconsin. 



filled, to the depth of 2i feet, with hiuiiau skeletons, many of which were 

 well preserved and evidently those of modern Indians, as with them 



were the usual modern weap- 

 ons and ornaments. Beneath 

 these was a mass of rounded 

 bowlders aggregating several 

 wagon loads, below which were 

 some 40 or 50 skeletons in a 

 sitting i)osture, in a circle, 

 around and facing a verylaige 

 sea shell. This specimen, which 

 with the other articles taken 

 fi'om this mound is in Mr. Hois- 

 sen's collection, measures 21 

 inches in length and 29 in cir- 

 cumference at its greatest 

 girth. 



Just south of the outlet of 

 the marsh is a small, oval in- 

 closure, with an opening at one end of some 4 or 5 feet. It consists of a 

 single wall 3 feet high and a ditch about two feet deep (shown in Fig. 46). 



BARRON COUNTY. 

 THE RICE I-AKE MOUNDS. 



The only explorations in this county were around Rice lake. This 

 group, a plat of which is given in PI. iv, is situated at Rice lake 

 village, on sec. 16, T. 35 N., E. 11 W., about half a mile above Red 

 Cedar river. The land at this point is somewhat broken, and the 

 area occupied by the group is cut by a small ravine that runs northeast 

 to the lake. Some of the mounds are on gravely knolls, a few in the 

 ravine, some on the slope up to the level which runs back to a ridge a 

 quarter of a mile distant and some on this level. The location was well 

 chosen for hunting, fishing, and procuring a supply of food, as game 

 and fish are still abundant and wild rice formerly grew on the lake. 



The group consists of fifty-one mounds, chiefly of the ordinary coni- 

 cal form. There are no efiQgies or long slender embankments in it. Two 

 of the long tyi^e, however, were found at the other end of the village. 



The construction varies so little that few only will be described as 

 samples of the rest, No. 1, for in,stance, as representing Nos. 24,26, 35, 

 39, 46, and 45. This stands in the bottom of a ravine about 10 feet 

 above the water level and about 500 feet from the shore of the lake; 

 diameter, 28 feet; height, 4 feet. The construction, as shown in figure 

 47, was as follows, commencing at the top: First, a layer of dark vege- 

 table mold (rt), 2 inches thick which had formed since the mound was 

 abandoned, next, a layer (h) of sandy loam with a slight admixture of 

 clay; third, the core (c), forming the central and remaining portion of 



