. Bulletin. Ethnology. BUSHNKLL] NATIVE CEMETERIES AND FORMS OF BURIAL 65 and 2^ feet in height. It covered a stone vaidt " which, though only about three and one-half feet wide and of the form shown in the figure, extended from the top of the mound down a foot or more below the natural surface of the ground. This contained a single skeleton in a half-upright position. The head was southwest, the feet northeast. Near the right hip was a discoidal stone. There were no traces of coals or ashes in this ; (Thomas, (1), p. 72.) The ground plan is indicated in figure 10. The hollowin
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BUSHNKLL] NATIVE CEMETERIES AND FORMS OF BURIAL 65 and 2^ feet in height. It covered a stone vaidt " which, though only about three and one-half feet wide and of the form shown in the figure, extended from the top of the mound down a foot or more below the natural surface of the ground. This contained a single skeleton in a half-upright position. The head was southwest, the feet northeast. Near the right hip was a discoidal stone. There were no traces of coals or ashes in this ; (Thomas, (1), p. 72.) The ground plan is indicated in figure 10. The hollowing out of a central space in the original surface, thus forming a resting place for the body or bodies, later to be entirely covered by a mass of earth, appears to have been a well-developed custom of the people who reared the many mounds in southern Wis- consin and the adjoining country, but seldom do such works com- bine this feature with the stone in- closure as discovered in the small mound mentioned above. The inclosures described are good examples of this peculiar form of tomb, but they are not confined to the country'east of the Mississippi, and many have been discovered ex- tending across the State of Missouri, up the valley of the Missouri. (Fowke, (2).) It is one of the most distinctive forms of burial encoun- tered in eastern United States, and Fig. lO.—Mound in Crawford County, likewise one of the most interesting. The numerous small burial mounds of Wisconsin do not reveal much of interest. They often occur in irregular groups, in some in- stances being associated with the effigies. Entire skeletons are found in some, but in others the burials are represented by a confused mass of bones. The mounds are seldom more than 10 feet in height, often quite steep, and consequently of a relatively small diameter. Little can be added to the account prepared more than 60 years ago. (Lapham, (1).) BUEIALS IN CAVES The early settlers of eastern Tennessee, eastern Kentucky, and
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