. Bulletin. Ethnology. 64 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 71 sitting posture, with backs against the walls. In the center of the space around which they were grouped was a fine large shell, Busy- con perversum, which had been converted into a drinking cup by removing the columella. Scattered around this were quite a number of pieces of broken pottery. The end cells, walled off as heretofore stated, were nearly filled with a fine chocolate-colored dust, which, .fl,f^fir!f^!;^'!!!"li)1R;0^li'ii;ii„,:,„ Isi^ ''!ik Fig. fS.—iMound in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, section. when uncov
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 64 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 71 sitting posture, with backs against the walls. In the center of the space around which they were grouped was a fine large shell, Busy- con perversum, which had been converted into a drinking cup by removing the columella. Scattered around this were quite a number of pieces of broken pottery. The end cells, walled off as heretofore stated, were nearly filled with a fine chocolate-colored dust, which, .fl,f^fir!f^!;^'!!!"li)1R;0^li'ii;ii„,:,„ Isi^ ''!ik Fig. fS.—iMound in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, section. when uncovered, gave out such a sickening odor that it was found necessary to suspend operations until the next day in order to give it time to escape. . The covering consisted of oak logs, nearly all of which had been peeled and some of the larger ones somewhat squared by slabbing off the sides before being put in ; (Thomas, (1), pp. 115-117.) Similar inclosures were discovered in. Fig. 9.—Mouncl in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, base. other mounds of the group. The true nature of the "fine chocolate- colored dust" was not determined. While the preceding was one of the most perfectly formed stone inclosures ever found east of the Mississippi and represents a cer- tain high degree of skill of the people by whom it was constructed, another a short distance northward may be regarded as exemplify- ing the other extreme. This refers to a small mound, one of a group, on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi about 1 mile above Lynxville, Crawford County, Wisconsin. It was 17 feet in diameter. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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