38 BURIAL MOUNDS OF THE NORTHERN SECTIONS. 
life, while in ether places we see the members of a family lying side 
by side, and in others the bones, possibly of the ordinary people, heaped 
together in a common ossuary. 
The timber-covered vault in mound No. 16 calls to mind very vividly 
the similar vaults mentioned by Squier and Davis,' found in the valley 
of the Scioto in Ohio. In the latter the walls as well as the covering 
were of logs, instead of stone, but the adaptation to circumstances 
may, perhaps, form a sufficient explanation of this difference. While 
there are several very marked distinctions between the Ohio works 
and those of the district now under consideration, there are also some 
resemblances, as we shall see as we proceed, which cannot be over- 
looked, and which seem to indicate relationship, contact, or intercourse 
between the people who were the authors of these different structures. 
In additional support of this view, I call attention to the carved 
pipes found by members of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 






Fic. 13.—Pipe from Illinois mound. 
(After Smithsonian Report.) 



Fic. 14.—Pipe from Mlinois mound, 4. Fic. 15.—Pipe from Illinois mound, 4. 
(After Smithsonian Report.) (After Smithsonian Report.) 
in the mounds near Davenport, Iowa, already referred to, which are 
represented on Plates IV and XXXIV of Vol. I of the Proceedings 
of that society, and to others obtained by Judge J. G. Henderson 

‘Ancient Monnments, p. 162. 
