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mounds in the Little Miami Valley, not far below Lebanon, and 

 of the prehistoric burial places about Madisonville. It is needless 

 to say that the rich collections made during these investigations 

 have been transferred to the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, where they are open to inspection. 



In 1893 the directors of the Columbian Exposition in Chi- 

 cago appropriated several thousand dollars for the exploration 

 of the Hopewell group of mounds in the Paint Creek Valley 

 near Chillicothe. The exploration was made by Professor War- 

 ren K. Moorehead and resulted in a remarkable collection of 

 relics which were transferred to the Field Columbian Museum 

 in Chicago, where they invite the study of Ohio Archaeologists. 

 The Smithsonian Institution in Washington has also been active 

 for many years in gathering relics from the Ohio mounds, and 

 transferring them to the United States National Museum in that 

 city. 



But through the work of our Society in the past few years 

 we have now outdistanced all others, both in the amount and the 

 value of our discoveries. By more systematic work we have 

 made the gleanings of the field more important than the first 

 crop. This has been specially noticeable in the exploration of 

 the Harness Mound near Chillicothe, and what had been called 

 the Elephant Mound near Portsmouth. The Harness Mound 

 had been sporadically dug into by Squier and Davis, Putnam, 

 and Moorehead, none of whom, however, had made any very 

 extensive discoveries. But on carefully exploring it from end 

 to end it was found that there was a series of burials near the 

 edge of the mound around its entire distance and that there had 

 been a wooden structure around the whole area. This was 

 brought to light by a series of postholes. In all 130 burials were 

 found in this one mound, together with 1200 implements of 

 copper, a large number of bone implements of rare value, and 

 much rare pottery revealing a special stage of culture. Among 

 the relics deposited with the burial were numerous instruments 

 and ornaments of copper from Lake Superior, of obsidian from 

 the Rocky Mountains, of mica from North Carolina, and of 

 shells from the Gulf of Mexico, points distant 3,000 miles from 



