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placed on the borders between two clan habitats are not only very large, 
but they seem to be associated with all the animals which would naturally 
be hunted; the moose, elk, buffalo, bear are grouped together, and the 
clan totem placed in the same region. 
We now take up the illustration of these points. Let us begin at Mer¬ 
ritt’s Landing. (See fig. 4.) Here there are two or three very large 
mink effigies,— one of them 700 feet long. It is so long and so level that 
the farmer who owns the land has placed his gateway at the head 
of the mink and drives to his field on the body of the mink, the road¬ 
way being open where the effigy is, but a second growth of timber comes 
to the very edge of the mink on either side. This mink is nearly as long 
as the whole drove of animals, the group on the edge of the lake being 
1,000 feet and this 700 feet long. Another mink near by measures 450 feet. 
These effigies mark the border of the habitat of the mink clan. This 
clan extended from Sauk Prairie, through Baraboo across the portage of 
the Wisconsin and Fox rivers to the North side of Buffalo lake. On the 
south side of the lake about ten miles to the east of the mink clan 
the habitat of the squirrel clan began. Both clans seem to have had their 
hunting grounds on this lake. The elk, buffalo, moose, were the animals 
which they hunted. There are many elk effigies on the north side of 
the lake but the mink effigy is associated with them, mink effigies being 
found, also, west of Buffalo lake, near the head waters of the Fox river. 
Squirrel effigies extend across to Puckaway lake on the north side but do 
not extend west of Buffalo lake. The squirrel clan also hunted the elk. 
There is a group of squirrel effigies near Montello but there is an elk 
effigy surrounded by squirrels, and everythingin the group indicates that 
it was the hunting ground of the squirrels. 
There is one contrivance which the squirrel clan adopted that is worthy 
of notice here. They made two squirrels on a large scale, twisted 
