Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States

Name: Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States
Author: Thomas, Cyrus

Thomas, Cyrus

Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites; Mounds -- United States; Wyandot Indians

Transcriber's Note:

This paper is a part of the Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of
Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-1884,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 3-120. The index
has been extracted from the volume index.

Minor printing errors have been corrected in this version and are listed
below.

  p72: Inserted the first word of the sentence beginning "A section of
       this bed...."
  p73: "thichness" changed to "thickness"
  p78: "victoms" changed to "victims"
  p88: "throughot" changed to "throughout"
  p114: "quelqu'vn" changed to "quelqu'un"
  Footnote [29]: "Smithonian" changed to "Smithsonian"
  Footnote [45]: "Vol," changed to "Vol."

The oe ligature has been represented in this version by [oe], e.g.
M[oe]urs. In the supplemental note (page 112), a character appearing to
be an o with a u above it is used. This has been transcribed as [uo].

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION--BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.

              BURIAL MOUNDS
                 OF THE
 NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES.

                   BY

          PROF. CYRUS THOMAS.

CONTENTS.

                                                                  Page.

  Introductory                                                        9

  Burial mounds of the Wisconsin district                            14

  Burial mounds of the Illinois or Upper Mississippi district        24

  The Ohio district                                                  45

  The Appalachian district                                           61

  The Cherokees probably mound-builders                              87

  Concluding remarks                                                108

  Supplemental note                                                 110

ILLUSTRATIONS.

                                                                  Page.

  PLATE  I. Group of earthworks, Allamakee County, Iowa.             26

        II. Enlarged figure and section of earthwork A, Pl. I.       30

       III. Group of mounds and vertical section of bluff,
            East Dubuque, Illinois.                                  36

        IV. A mound. (From DeBry).                                   40

         V. Plat of ancient works, Kanawha County,
            West Virginia.                                           54

        VI. Enlarged plan of part of the works shown in Plate V.     58

  FIG.  1. Section of mound near Racine, Wisconsin.
           (After Lapham).                                           14

        2. Section of burial mound. Vernon County, Wisconsin.        15

        3. Earthen pot from Wisconsin burial mound.                  16

        4. Section of burial mound. Crawford County, Wisconsin.      17

        5. Section of burial mound. Crawford County, Wisconsin.      18

        6. Section of burial mound. Vernon County, Wisconsin.        20

        7. Section of burial mound. Davenport, Iowa.                 24

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States

No reviews yet