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7. How is the absence of stone and copper implements to be 

 explained? Were they possibly deposited in a spring, creek, or 

 other sacred place or did the builders of these mounds antedate the 

 makers of advanced stone and copper implements? 



8. Are there other instances of rebuilding mounds made by the 

 people of an older culture, as the bear rebuilt into a panther in this 

 group ? 



9. Are there other evidences of superposition or juxtaposition 

 of cultures to be found in mound groups? 



It is hoped that further projected investigation in this region 

 with its hundreds of mounds, and its large numbers of camp sites, 

 village sites, work shops, pottery making sites, and other ancient 

 remains, showing ample evidence of the occupation of the region 

 by several cultures over a long period of time, may throw further 

 light on these problems. 



DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE MOUNDS 



MOUND No. 1 



This large conical burial mound, plate XIII, fig. 1, was some 

 seventy feet in diameter. A segment about 12.5 feet wide on the 

 northern margin of the mound had been carried away by the inroads 

 of the lake but none of the contents of the mound had been dis- 

 turbed. At the time of its excavation the mound stood about four 

 and a half feet above the surrounding level on the up hill side. 

 Formerly it had been about two feet higher, but through some 

 years of cultivation the top had been gradually lowered. The ex- 

 treme summit of the mound showed an elevation above mean lake 

 level of 20.48 feet. The mound stands just on the brow of the 

 point, plate XIII, fig. 2, where the land begins to slope toward the 

 south and southwest down to the small flat which borders the 

 marsh on the northeast bank of Kratz creek, plate I, fig. 1. The 

 first part of this slope is quite abrupt, so that in the seventy feet 

 of the diameter of this mound the slope is approximately three 

 and a half feet. Thus the summit of the mound stands about eight 

 feet above its perimeter on the down hill side. The terrain con- 

 tinues to slope down to the water's edge which is reached at a 

 point about 225 feet from the summit of the mound. The last 

 hundred feet or so of this point are quite level and form a small 



