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It was a singular freak for the people to have erected the effigy in such a 

 place! but no doubt the shape of the bluff or rocky spur suggested the 

 effigy. The clan totem found its enibedinient in the rock, or at least it was 

 so imagined to be by the builders. 



Fig. 9. 



Confirmatory of this theory of the clan totem was a discovery made a 

 few days after on the Kickapoo river. At the mouth of this river near 

 the village of Wazeka, there is a grouj) of long mounds and effigies, one 

 of them the effigy of a weasel. Five miles north of Wazeka two other 

 effigies were discovered, both of them swallows. One of these was situated 

 on the top of a very high hill, which overlooked the valley of the Kickapoo 

 and which commanded a view of nearly all of the groups which were 

 previously visited, especially those on the summit of the ridges near the 

 village of Batavia or Eastman. It was a lone swallow and seemed to mark 

 the border hne of the swallow clan. The other effigy was situated in a very 

 retired and lonely sjDot, down near the the water's edge at a bend of the 

 river and hidden away among the surrounding hills. This also was a lone 

 bird. Its wings stretched from bank to bank across the bend of the river, 

 and it covered the bottom-land. The impression formed from these two 

 effigies was that the Kickapoo river -was occupied by the swallo'w clan. 



In all these groups which were situated north of the Wisconsin river 

 there were no effigies which resembled in any way an elephant. There were 

 effigies of bear, buffalo, wolves, birds and M^easels, but the most numerous 

 and common was this effigy of the swallow. This completes the report of 

 the survey of the effigies in the vicinity of the so-called elephant mound of 

 Grant county. There were, however, about this time various reports pub- 

 lished concerning the discovery of elephant effigies in other parts of Wiscon- 

 sin, and the writer took pains to visit these localities. 



The following facts are presented as supplementary to this descrip- 

 tion of the survey. The place which was visited by the writer to ascertain 

 the facts about a runaored elephant effigy was in Green Lake county, not 

 far from the city of RiiDon. It should be said the discussion about elephant 

 pipes which was conducted between Mr. Chas. E. Putnam, Esq. , President 

 of the Davenport Academy of Science, and Mr. Henry W. Henshaw, of the 

 Ethnological Bureau, during the year 1885, gave additional interest to the 



