MOUND-BUILDEES AND PLATYCNEMISM IN MICHIGAN. 373 



as a proof of the prevalence of tliis strange peculiarity. The mounds 

 here and those on the Eouge Elver are over 60 miles apart. 



Table II. — Dimensions, ^c, ofiibicefrom the head of the Saint Clair Biver, Michigan. 





Ml 



a 



<D 

 1-1 



Transverse diame- 

 ter, proximal end. 



O 



a 

 1 



a 



o 



'3 

 1 



Antero-posterior di- 

 ameter and trans- 

 voise diameter of 

 sliaft. 



/ 



M 



Is 

 o 



B 



CD 



3 

 d 



"S 



1-1 



1 



2 

 3 



14.5 

 15.0 



2.7 

 2.7 



2.9 

 2.9 



155 by 83 

 155 by 82 

 152 by 86 

 140 by 77 

 135 by 75 



0.200 

 0.200 



0. 5;>5 

 0. 529 

 0.566 



4 







2.5 

 2.6 





550 



5 









0. 562 











Mean .... 



14.75 



2.7 



2.75 



147 by 80 



0.200 



0.548 



These tihiw were all taken from mound No. 3 of the report; which see 

 for additional Information of interest. ^ 



On the west bank of the Black Eiver, a tributary of the Saint Clair 

 Eiver, is a burial-mound, which exhibited some unusual features. 

 [Fig. 4.] A road having been cut through the easterly slope of this 

 mound, the excavation consequent on grading, &c., revealed a large 

 number of human bones, pottery, stone implements, and other relics. 

 Stone-lance or spear-heads of great length were taken out, two of them 

 being over a foot long, and one sixteen inches in length. But the most 

 interesting feature of this repository of relics was a grave, the interior 

 of which was described to me as being lined with pottery similar to 

 that of which the vases, pots, «&c., are formed. This was so peculiar a 

 circuDQstance, no other instance of the kind having come to my knowl- 

 edge, that at first I considered the statement rather doubtful. But not 

 long after I availed myself of an opportunity of visiting the locality and 

 making an examination. 



Though the construction of the road through the mound had destroj^ed 

 most of the original features, and scattered a multitude of valuable re- 

 mains, further excavation revealed a considerable quantity of fragments of 

 the pottery above referred to as having been said to have lined the grave. 

 This certainly appeared to confirm the statement. I found this pottery 

 to be of rather a coarser description than usual, and marked abundantly 

 with the cord pattern, found to be of such frequent employment ; but in 

 this, instance made with a large cord or small rope. The side so orna- 

 mented was invariably concave, while the other side was convex and 

 unsmoothed ; different from any other specimens I have seen elsewhere. 

 So rough and unfinished was the unornamented side, that it had every 

 appearance of having been pressed upon the ground while yet plastic 

 and sand, and even small pebbles, adhering to it sustained this impres- 

 sion. After having viewed the evidence, I had no longer any great 

 difficulty in receiving the statements previously made. 



My chief informant was perfectly uneducated in such matters, and 



