. Bulletin. Ethnology. WALEER] TBOYVILLE, LA., MOUNDS 11 than from east to west, and so gashed and mutilated that the observer found it difficult to determine just what the original shape had been. Evidently he did not know of Dunbar's description. The plan given in figure 3 embodies the dimensions given by Dun- bar. Palmer's report provided Dr. Cyrus Thomas with the data for his brief description of the Troyville mounds, which occurs in his " Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnol- ogy ", and in it he gives a plat of the group showing its location. CONCORDIA PARISH
. Bulletin. Ethnology. WALEER] TBOYVILLE, LA., MOUNDS 11 than from east to west, and so gashed and mutilated that the observer found it difficult to determine just what the original shape had been. Evidently he did not know of Dunbar's description. The plan given in figure 3 embodies the dimensions given by Dun- bar. Palmer's report provided Dr. Cyrus Thomas with the data for his brief description of the Troyville mounds, which occurs in his " Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnol- ogy ", and in it he gives a plat of the group showing its location. CONCORDIA PARISH Figure 4.—Plan of Troyville Mound group, about 1871 (after Thomas and Beyer). at the town of Troyville on Black River.^- It is not, however, wholly accurate, as the town which was laid out in 1871 was com- posed of 16 blocks filling the entire area inside the ancient embank- ment, and these blocks were oriented parallel to the axes of the two rivers bordering it. Thus early in the town's history nearly all of the mounds were subject to a greater or lesser amount of disturb- ance. The Great Mound, No. 1 on the Thomas plat (fig. 4, No. 5), occupied the major part of block 11, lying across it from north to south. Beyer's plan, made in 1896, which shows 9 mounds, is " Thomas, 1894, p. 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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