[1773] Second Rept. Bur. of Ethnol., p. 159, where Henshaw thinks it may just as well be anything else. Cf. Isaac Smucker in Amer. Antiquarian, vii. 350.
[1774] Cf. Amer. Antiq., vi. 254.
[1775] Peab. Mus. Rept., xvii., and Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., Oct., 1883. He points out that the Ohio effigy mounds have a foundation of stones with clay superposed; the Georgia mounds are mainly of stone; while the Wisconsin mounds seem to be constructed only of earth.
Further references on the Wisconsin mounds: Smithsonian Repts., by E. E. Breed (1872); by C. K. Dean (1872); by Moses Strong (1876, 1877); by J. M. DeHart (1877); and again (1879).
Also: Haven’s Archæol. U. S., p. 106; W. H. Canfield’s Sauk County; DeHart in Amer. Antiquarian, April, 1879; their military character in Ibid., Jan., 1881; also as emblems in Ibid. 1883 (vi. 7); Nadaillac and other general works. There is a map of those near Beloit—some are in the college campus—in the American Antiquarian, iii. 95.
[1776] They have been described in the Smithsonian Reports by T. R. Peale (1861); and in Amer. Antiquarian, July, 1888, by S. D. Peet. Other mounds and relics are described in the Smithsonian Repts. (1863) by J. W. Foster; (1870) by A. Barrandt; (1877) by W. H. R. Lykins; and (1879) by G. C. Broadhead; in Peab. Mus. Repts., viii., by Professor Swallow; in Missouri Hist. Soc. Publ., no. 6, by F. F. Hilder; in Cinn. Quart. Jour. of Sci., Jan., 1875, by Dr. S. H. Headlee; in the Kansas City Rev., i. 25, 531; in the St. Louis Acad. of Science (1880) by W. P. Potter; Mr. A. J. Conant has been the most prolific writer in Ibid., April 5, 1876; in W. F. Switzler’s History of Missouri (St. Louis, 1879), and in C. R. Burns’s Commonwealth of Missouri (1877). Cf. also Poole’s Index, p. 858.
[1777] T. H. Lewis in Science, v. 131; vi. 453. On other Iowa mounds, see Smithsonian Rept., by J. B. Cutts (1872); by M. W. Moulton (1877), and again (1879); Annals of Iowa, vi. 121; and W. J. McGee in Amer. Journal Science, cxvi. 272.
[1778] Smithsonian Rept., 1863; and for mounds, 1879. Cf. L. C. Estes on the antiquities on the banks of Missouri and Lake Pepin in Ibid., 1866.
[1779] Kansas Rev., ii. 617; Joseph Savage and B. F. Mudge in Kansas Acad. Science, vii.
[1780] Smithsonian Rept., by A. J. Comfort (1871) and by A. Barrandt (1872); W. McAdams in Amer. Antiquarian, viii. 153.