1921] 



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were opened, nearly all of which contained burials, but none of these re- 

 mains had mortuary deposits or implements with them. 



At this locality game was abundant. On one occasion in the morn- 

 ing when we repaired to the mound for work, we discovered that an old 

 bear with two cubs had been wandering about through the trees, their 

 tracks being plainly marked on the fresh sand. On another occasion 

 while looking for new mounds in the neighborhood, the tracks of four 

 bears and three deer were located. We also heard the howling of wolves 

 at night. 



Fig. 3. — Opcninjj; 



lar^^c "Catfish-shaped" mound at LaBcllc Lake, 

 Shawano Counlv, Wis. 



After the conclusion of the work at Xakuti's Berry Patch, the party 

 returned to Keshena where work was begun upon a small group of 

 mounds on Wapus ridge, near the village. These yielded interesting 

 types of burials, as did the small group of mounds at Keshena lake. 

 S-de trips were made to La Belle lake some 20 miles away near the 

 South Branch Settlement on the reservation and to the Kakwatch 

 Mound Group, two localities previously worked by us during 1919. 

 These trips were undertaken for the purpose of opening mounds which 

 we had not been alile to locate on our previous visit. On the former trip 



