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any particular relation to the rest of the group. It was 34 feet in 

 diameter, and about 2 feet above the ground level, or 17.23 feet 

 above mean lake level. 



It was discovered on a second trip to the group, and was not 

 excavated. 



MOUNDS Nos. 21 TO 26 



Mounds Nos. 21 to 26, inclusive, are a series of very low mounds 

 on the west end of the older section of the group, situated nearest 

 the lake shore. They had been placed in a direct line, and evidently 

 were closely associated. Consequently they are treated here as 

 a unit. 



At first they were considered to be a line of low conicals, but a 

 resurvey, when the site had been burned over, disclosed that three 

 of them had more elaborate forms, evidently those of half finished 

 effigies. The whole series presented the appearance of unfinished 

 work, being simple in stratification, and none of them containing 

 the fire strata of the finished mounds. 



The first two, Nos. 21 and 22, were low conicals about 18 feet 

 in diameter and with elevations above mean lake level of 19.34 and 

 19.54 feet, respectively. They contained only two strata ; loam, and 

 mottled sandy clay, resting on a red clay hardpan which was the 

 bottom of the mounds. As has been previously mentioned, they 

 may have been the beginnings of mounds, which were reserved for 

 completion at a later ceremony. But it appears most probable 

 that here we have the initial stage in the utilization of the conical 

 in constructing effigy mounds, of which the next three mounds 

 form the second stage. 



These three mounds, Nos. 23, 24 and 25, show indefinite effigy 

 forms, made partly by the conicals themselves, and partly by filling 

 in earth around them. The first of these three, No. 23, has the 

 peculiar form of an arrowhead, evidently made by filling in earth 

 at three points on the conical. This mound is very low, roughly 

 0.5 of a foot above the surrounding level, or 19.74 feet above mean 

 lake level. The outline is just discernible when the ground is ab- 

 solutely bare. The stratification is similar to that of Nos. 21 and 22. 



Mound No. 24 is another of peculiar form, with a legless body 

 and an enlarged head. It measured 58 by 20 feet, with a diameter 

 of 30 feet for the grotesque head. Had legs been added, this would 

 have made a form similar to a mound found in the Klutz Group 



