50 BULLETIN, PUBLIC MUSEUM, MILWAUKEE. [ViOl. III. 



that the tail started to angle off toward the north, following the 

 edge of the upland and extending toward the large conical mound. 

 No. 1. 



A transverse section of this conical, showing the peculiar form 

 of the bottom of the mound is given in text figure 7. There was 

 a rise in the bottom similar to that shown in the other parts of the 

 tail and on this was a small fireplace near the center of the conical. 

 There was also the fairly heavy fire layer near the top, which was a 

 continuation of the overspreading fire stratum on top of the whole 

 mound. 



Only one other small and independent fireplace was found. This 

 rested on the clay hardpan of the hind foot of the panther. Here 

 the clay bottom dipped down about three inches, showing that it 

 had been excavated purposely for the fireplace. 



The three burials at the shoulder position of this mound were 

 very carefully placed as shown in plate V. The central and prin- 



FIG. 7— CROSS SECTION OF PRESENT CONICAL END OF THE TAIL OF MOUND NO. 3 



cipal one was that of a man of about middle age, flexed and placed 

 on its right side facing southward. This partly excavated skeleton 

 is shown in fig. 1 of this plate. It was 15.52 feet above lake level, 

 about 1.8 feet above the floor of the mound and 5.9 feet below the 

 surface of the mound at this point. 



The two secondary burials were located at 17.17 and 17.23 feet, 

 respectively, above mean lake level or 1.65 and 1.71 feet, respec- 

 tively, above the main central burial. The first was that of a very 

 young woman and was located about 5 feet southwest of the main 

 burial. It was embedded in red clay so hard that it must have been 

 packed artificially, a conclusion borne out by the crushed condition 

 of the skull. The second was that of a relatively old man with the 

 legs very strongly flexed and with strongly curved spine. It was 

 located about five feet southeast of the main burial. These bones 

 lay in a layer of brown-streaked, grayish earth which rested on a 

 layer of hard packed, red clay below which was a layer of golden 

 sand. These skeletons also faced southward. They are shown in 



