1923] SKINNER, INDIAN REMAINS IN SHOREWOOD 99 



in their promise not to delve further, and the next morning found the 

 archeologist hard at work at his lonesome task. 



The first mound was one of the type commonly called "Linear". 

 It measures fifty-nine feet in length, and is thirteen feet broad, but 

 only rises a foot to sixteen or at most eighteen inches above the 

 surface. It had no appearance of being a ceremonial or burial mound, 

 and, as a trench carried its entire length proved, was completely com- 

 posed of kitchen refuse; that is, dark earth, discolored by decaying 

 animal matter and flecks of charcoal, with occasional mouldering 

 fragments of animal bones, crackled stones from Indian fires of long 

 ago, and flint chips, arrow points, scrapers, rejects, and a handsomely 

 chipped drill or perforator of "T" shape. Best of all, from an arche- 

 ologist's standpoint, there was a small fragment of a native-made clay 

 pipe bearing on its sides a dense series of indentations made with some 

 sharp pointed instrument which formed a dotted decoration. The 

 top and bottom sides were smooth, however, as they were not so 

 visible when the pipe was in use. 



The many potsherds were all of the coarse northern ware tempered 

 with burnt stone, pounded and pulverized. A type of ware associated 

 in Wisconsin, Minnesota, southern Ontario and the Middle Atlantic 

 and New England states with the historic and prehistoric remains of 

 the Indians of the Algonkian linguistic stock. The decorations on the 

 potsherds, which occurred only near the mouths of the vessels, in 

 most cases, were commonly made by the impression of a stick wrapped 

 with native twisted cord, applied when the clay was still damp, and 

 before the vessels had been fired. These occurred both outside and 

 inside the lip of the vessel, and were laid on in varying geometric 

 patterns, mostly of the "Herring-bone" and "Chevron" varieties. A 

 few sherds, bearing the incised "netted" design in diamond-shaped 

 quadrangles, were also found. The shape of the jars was difficult to 

 determine, owing to the small size of the fragments and the lack of 

 completeness of any specimen. Some of the sherds seem to indicate 

 that the vessels were large, with circular mouths, and narrowed necks, 

 the sides bulging slightly, and then running down to a pointed, or at 

 least oval, base, the favorite shape of the vessels used by the ancient 

 Algonkian tribes throughout their range. While these remarks di- 

 rectly concern the potsherds found in mound No. 1, they apply with 

 equal force to all those found on this site. None of the hard baked, 

 thin, often shell-tempered ware, tentatively ascribed to the Winne- 

 bago, and other tribes of the Siouan stock was found on this site, 

 although some such sherds have been found by the writer on a small 



