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representing the different classes of animals is the most worthy of 
study. 
i his is uniform — all the effigies which we have observed have 
the same characteristics, the manner of presenting the animals 
having become conventional and fixed." 
When we stop to consider that these very birds, beasts and 
fishes which they so correctly, ably and artistically represented, 
played a prominent role in their daily life and environments, we 
need not wonder at their proficiency in depicting them. That they 
understood to a certain extent the division and classification of the 
animals they represented is most likely and not at all unnatural 
under the circumstances. 
Such were their natural powers of observation and imitation, 
strengthened by an every-day association with their subjects, and 
so great the influence upon their savage nature that they readily 
became proficient in depicting them m their remarkable earth- 
works. 
The prevalence of the panther type of effigy mound in the state 
of Wisconsin is well known. Other animals, the eagle, bufifalo, 
wolf, otter and turtle occur frequently, but in point of numbers 
and relative interest the panther, as becomes his kingliness and 
strength, readily dominates over all. 
Among the animal mounds of Milwaukee County this domi- 
nation of the panther type over all others is particularly apparent. 
Dr. L A. Lapham alone describes and figures twenty-one of 
these out of a total of twenty-six animal mounds, the only other 
animal mounds in Milwaukee County described by him (so far as 
we are able to ascertain) being three bird, two turtle (one dis- 
torted) and one wolf mound. 
Mr. Jas. S. Buck in his ''History of Milwaukee," describes one 
other which Dr. Lapham does not seem to have noted, as located. 
'*in Elizabeth Street, now National Avenue, about Twenty-fourth 
Avenue. This was a gigantic specimen 200 feet in length, and 
upon it stood oak trees, three feet in diameter." 
Dr. Lapham has also spoken of a number of "lizard" and other 
m.ounds as having been once located at Walker's Point, on the 
south side of the Menomonee, near the junction of the Milwaukee 
and Menomonee Rivers, but does not inform us of their number. 
If to the twenty-one panther mounds heretofore mentioned we add 
the five comprised in the Teller group, we have a total of twenty- 
six panther or lizard mounds out of a total of thirty-one animal 
effigies described. 
Of these nine w^ere known to have been located in the vicinity 
of or along the Kinnickinnic. two near the Menomonee and twen- 
ty-one along the Milwaukee River. 
