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1. The older bear mound is smaller, much lower and more 

 simple in stratification. It shows only a slight original excavation. 



2. Different ceremonial sands were used in the two mounds. 

 An example is the very fine yellow sand employed in the older 

 mound which appears to correspond to the golden sand used in 

 the newer one. 



3. The strata appear to have been laid down horizontally in 

 uniform thicknesses in the older type, whereas in the newer struc- 

 tures there are distinct vertical changes in the stratification in 

 different sections. 



The last point, taken in connection with other facts, would lead 

 to the general conclusion that the smaller animal forms of the older 

 period were constructed stratigraphically as a whole. In the later 

 and much larger mounds, however, there appeared to be a necessity 

 for construction in sections which led, at least in some instances, 

 to distinct breaks in the general stratification. 



MOUNDS Nos. 35 AND 36 



Mounds Nos. 35 and 36, shown in fig. 16, were two more of the 

 low-lying bear mounds, placed back to back, situated a short dis- 

 tance east of bear mound No. 34. Time did not permit of their 

 excavation, but they are so similar in form and general appearance 

 to No. 34, that this mound, as previously described, may be taken 

 as probably typical of these also. 



No. 35, which lay nearest the lake, was 78 feet long and had a 

 body 25 feet wide. Its fore leg ran almost at right angles to the 

 trend of the body and measured 10 feet long by 9 feet wide. The 

 hind leg stood at an angle of nearly 45° to the body and was 17 feet 

 long by 12 feet wide. 



No. 36, which faced away from the lake, was 75 feet long and 

 had a body averaging 18 feet wide. Its legs were indicated by 

 short rounding projections on the south side of the mound and the 

 head was likewise a rounded projection. These two mounds were 

 located on a slight slope toward the east, but their average height 

 above mean lake level was about 18 feet and that above the sur- 

 rounding ground was approximately 1 foot. They trended E 15° S. 



