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"Then I felt the strong medicine working within me, boiling 

 like the springs about our river, and again I rose up through deep 

 waters, and found myself in the lodge of the great serpent spirit. 



"Having shown me all I wished to know, he bade me return to 

 my people, and tell them what I had seen and heard, even as I am 

 telling you now, grandfather." 



SUMMARY 



This work on the Kratz Creek mound group has brought forth 

 several interesting facts, some of which, at least, will probably hold 

 good for mounds in other parts of the state. They are as follows : 



1. The presence of at least two cultures is indicated in this 

 group of mounds by differences of construction and con- 

 tents. Both are quite distinct from the later culture shown 

 in the villages and other sites of the immediate vicinity. 



2. Effigy mounds as well as conicals were used for mortuary 

 and sacrificial purposes. 



3. In some instances, at least, these effigy mounds were first 

 excavated as intaglios, which were later filled in and the 

 cameo constructed. This points to the probability that the 

 few intaglio mounds of Wisconsin are simply effigy mounds 

 that were left unfinished. Evidences are present of the use 

 of small conicals to delimit effigies and linears in their con- 

 struction. 



4. In building most effigy mounds and in some of the conicals, 

 a very careful and systematic stratification was observed. 

 These strata consisted of common local earths, sacrificial 

 earths and fire layers. 



5. The use of certain mounds themselves as special repository 

 and crematory altars was found. Also the presence within 

 certain mounds of special repository and crematory altars. 



6. The presence of several types of sacrifice: (1) sacrificial 

 earths; (2) property sacrifice; (3) animal sacrifice and (4) 

 possibly human sacrifice. There were also striking facts 



