Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . pectively. An exampleof these vessels is shown as Fig. 80. WOVEN FABRIC AND MATTING Matting made from strips of the inner bark of treeswas found with burial number 9, mound number 7. Aportion of this matting is shown in Fig. 81. The matting lay beneath a large sheet of mica and acopper breast-plate, the carbonate of copper from thelatter preserving those portions of the fabric with whichit came in contact. Owing to the high development of the custom ofcremation in the Mound City group (not a single uncre-mated burial was found) little opportunity p
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . pectively. An exampleof these vessels is shown as Fig. 80. WOVEN FABRIC AND MATTING Matting made from strips of the inner bark of treeswas found with burial number 9, mound number 7. Aportion of this matting is shown in Fig. 81. The matting lay beneath a large sheet of mica and acopper breast-plate, the carbonate of copper from thelatter preserving those portions of the fabric with whichit came in contact. Owing to the high development of the custom ofcremation in the Mound City group (not a single uncre-mated burial was found) little opportunity presentedfor the observance of perishable materials. As a re-sult, but little in the way of woven fabric was recovered,the fabric, along with other combustible materials, hav- 560 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications ing been consumed in the cremation ceremonials. Suffi-cient was recovered, however, preserved by the salts ofcopper, to show that the weaving of textiles had reacheda high plane of development with the builders of Fig. 81. Matting made of strips of bark. SUMMARY The final exploration of the Mound City group ofearthworks, by our survey, shows that certain of Squierand Davis conclusions as to the purpose and use of themounds, or rather of the pre-structures now represented Exploration of the Mound City Group 561 by mounds, are, in part or wholly, incorrect. Lack ofsufficient evidence, and perhaps faulty interpretation ofthe evidence available to them, appear to have been thecauses for rather far-fetched surmises and statementsunsupported by facts. In the Introductory Note to this report, the prin-cipal ones of these questionable conclusions were men-tioned. These were, in substance: That the buildersof the Mound City group practiced human sacrifice;and that, from this custom, they should be in some wayrelated to the great culture groups of Mexico and Cen-tral America; that certain basin-like receptacles con-structed upon the floors of the mounds were
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