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the dense underbrush covering the site at these points made it impossible 

 to locate the mounds. 



An interesting site was found on the Makimitas place at Keshena. 

 Here was a large series of pits which were apparently graves, the con- 

 tents of which were subsequently disinterred by the natives. The bones 

 of the dead were apparently removed and then burned to ashes in the 

 bottom of the opened grave, the ashes subsequently being gathered up, 

 like those at the Big Eddy site, and, in so far as the larger fragments 



Fig. 



4. — A mixed burial, partly calcined and partly unburned human 

 bones. LaBelle Lake mound group, Shawano County, Wis. 



of bones were concerned, they were reburied in nearby mounds. In 

 these pits some fragments of bones which had escaped final cremation, 

 were discovered. A similar case of partial cremation is shown in figure 

 4, a mixed burial in a mound at La Belle lake. 



A village site in a swamp near Watasa lake was next explored. 

 Here the wigwams had been erected on long, low domiciliary mounds, 

 and these were filled with kitchen refuse. It is of interest to observe 

 that the potsherds from this site sometimes difiFered widely from those 

 found elsewhere on the trip. Various instances of bundle reburial, such 

 as that shown in figure 5, were also found. 



