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English.-o---LABORATORY IS IN ODD PLACEAn Old Indian Burial, Ceremonial Ground 11MADISON, Wis., (UP)—Indian rceremonial and burial mounds esLi-1 —mated to be from 500 to 1,000 years i---old form the site of the new United tain a ceremonial fireplace of an States Forest Products laboratory | unusual form together witfc sym-soon to be built here. I metrically placed boulders. OtherExcavation of the last unexplored relics found by Bro'wn were small Indian mound has been completed1 deposits of ashes, bones of small by C. E. Brovrn, director of the animals, flint flakes, charcoal and Wisconsin Historical museum, and,fireplace stones.students in the University of Wis-----—----——consin anthropology department.The laboratory site, about 10'* acres In all, includes a hill known to be an important community cen-| ter of Indians of comparatively j modern times. Records show that] a band of 200 Winnebago Indians were encamped here as recently asi Civil War times.The mound, a linear structure of a tapering outline, proved to con-,
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Manitowoc Evening Times
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Fri, May 15, 1931
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