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did, in correct style, pouring out a libation of the soup to regale the 

 dead mound makers. He carried away some to his wife, and yet we 

 had more than we could possibly negotiate. Perhaps my comrades may 

 wonder where the last few quarts went. If so, they may learn from this 

 that I returned them to the river whence came the old snapper, offering 

 them as a feast lo all the underwater monsters who dwell in the dismal 

 places on the Wolf. 



It would not surprise me in the least to some day read in some an- 

 thropological publication a remarkable folktale collected by some future 

 ethnologist among the Menomini, setting forth with great circumstance 

 and accuracy the true story of how Medicine Bundle and Little Weasel, 

 Menomini warriors and nephews of Little Medicine Man. were men 

 enough to eat the heart of a snapping turtle while it was still beating, in 

 the dim days of the past shortly after "the iNIenomini came out of the 

 ground." 



After the comi)letion of the work at Big Eddy, camp was moved lo 

 Paiawisit lake, near the southeast corner of the Reserve in Oconto 

 county. Here is situated a group of unusually high mounds in a dense 

 swamp and covered with a heavy growth of timber. Three of the 

 mounds which were intact — many of them had l)een tampered with in 

 the past — were cleared of trees and brush and opened. The most inter- 

 es ing tumulus was a high, round, so-called "conical' pile, through which 

 a trench forty-five feet long, seven feet broad and nine and a half feet 

 deep was cut. On the original surface of the ground at the bottom of 

 the mound was found the dismembered skeleton of a robust man, the 

 skull was beaten in and both arms and legs were missing. As usual, 

 there were no accompanying specimens with the interment. 



Here again some difficulty was experienced with the Indian assist- 

 ants, for the reason that there was a deserted Indian settlement situated 

 within a mile of the spot, made in the time subsequent to the arrival of 

 the Indians on the iMenomini reservation. Here there was an old burial 

 ground, and from time to time the Indians reported that they could hear 

 the voices of their by-gone ancestors, singing medicine songs accom- 

 panied by the swish of the gourd rattle. However, suitable offerings of 

 tobacco were made on the sites of the graves, and the spirits were pre- 

 vailed upon to keep quiet so nothing untoward wonld happen. 



At this juncture, i\Ir. Lewis J. Dartt, of Montello, Wisconsin, joined 

 our party and camp was moved to a locality known as Nakuti's Berry 

 Patch where there is a large mound group. Here a number of mounds 



