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level. It is possible that we have in this fireplace a combination 

 of the fire and shell altars, which were usually separate in the other 

 mounds. The deep fire bed and the condition of the bones would 

 indicate that they had been partially cremated. The absence of 

 the skull may also be due to the same cause. It is a rather sig- 

 nificant fact that the only other partially cremated burials in the 

 flesh were found' in the adjoining "Rabbit" mound, No. 9. 



A large pot, probably originally filled with food, had been placed 

 at the feet of the skeleton. It was impossible to excavate this, on 

 account of its disintegration, but its outline may be seen in the 

 plate above referred to. This placing of pottery with the remains 

 was another general custom observed in the older burials in adja- 

 cent mounds. 



MOUND No. 9 



This mound, shown in fig. 11, represented a new form, which, 

 following the general custom of naming mounds from animals of 

 similar shape, we have termed for convenience the "rabbit". Sev- 

 eral of these strange effigies were observed in other localities around 

 the lake, so it is probable that it is a local type. It most resembles 

 the old bear form, except for the longer body, the hump on the 

 shoulder, and, of course, the long ear. 



This mound was 108 feet long, measured from the perimeter of 

 the small conical, No. 8, which was superimposed on its nose, to 

 its hip. The maximum width of the body was 25 feet. The fore 

 leg was 14 feet long and 9 feet wide, while the hind leg was 16 

 feet long and 10 feet wide. Each had a rounded foot, as though 

 originally formed by a small conical. Each was 13 feet wide. The 

 neck was nearly as wide as the body, 20 feet. The ear was 16 feet 

 long and 8 feet wide. The elevation of the mound above mean 

 lake level was 21.98 feet, or 2.24 feet above the surface of the sur- 

 rounding ground. It trended E 2° S and belonged to the series 

 of rather large, high effigies beginning with the panther effigy, 

 No. 3. 



A burial of partially cremated bones was found in the hip posi- 

 tion of this mound and another of more fully cremated bones at the 

 shoulder. The first of these is shown in plate XII, fig. 2. The posi- 

 tions of both were marked by fireplaces and a fire circle. Also by 

 a series of ceremonial clays and sands packed very hard about the 

 burial. Two special fireplaces were located on the east and west 



