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After the usual purification ceremony had been performed, in the 

 sweat lodge, the painted lodge was taken down with proper songs, relat- 

 ing to the pulling up of the pegs, the removal of the lodge covering, the 

 taking down of the poles, and the transfer of the rattles, ornaments and 

 the ceremonial bundle. 



The face of the purchaser was then again completely covered with 

 ceremonial red paint and then a Ijlack line was drawn completely around 

 the face, passing at the roots of the hair on the forehead, in front of 

 the ears and under the chin. A line was then drawn from the forehead 

 down over the nose and to the chin. The person so decorated was known 

 to all as the possessor of a newly purchased painted lodge and acquired 

 additional distinction therebv. 



NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF UPPER 

 DEVONIAN STRATA IN WISCONSIN 



By Ira Edwards and Gilbert Raasch" 



The occurrence of Upper Devonian strata overlying the well-known 

 Hamilton formation of the Milwaukee region has long been suspected. 

 Dr. T. C. Chamberlin, in 1877, wrote: "In the drift lying upon this 

 (Hamilton) rock, an abundance of black shale is presented in thin, fra- 

 gile, more or less rounded chips, indicating the near presence of beds 

 from which they were derived, and which may l)e conjectured to be the 

 overlying l)lack slate so ainmdant in o'Jier regions.'"" 



No further evidence of the existence of these beds was discovered 

 until the excavation of the North Point Intake Tunnel by the City of 

 Milwaukee during the years 1885 to 1900. This tunnel extended under 

 Lake Michigan from the lake shore at the eastern end of North Ave., 

 3,200 feet directly eastward. At the shoreward end of the tunnel, a 

 shaft 132 feet in depth was sunk and in the debris from this excavation 

 were found numerous fragments of the black shale." This debris was 

 piled upon the beach, leveled off and soon converted into a public park, 

 being accessible to collectors for only a short space of time. Collections 



"Respectively Curator and Assistant. Department of Geology, Milwaukee 

 Public Museum. 



-'Chamberlin, T. C., Geology of Wisconsin, II. p. 398, 1877. 



^^Monroe, Charles E., and Teller, Edgar E.. The Fauna of the Devonian. 

 Formation at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jour. Geol., VII, pp. 272-283, 1899. 



