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LABORATORY IS IN ODD PLACEAn Old Indian Burial, Ceremonial GroundMADISON, Wis., (UP)—Indian1! ceremonial and burial mounds esti-'-mated to be from 500 to 1.000 years'old form the site of the new United taiQ a ceremonial fireplace of an States Forest Products laboratory \ unusual form together wltfc sym-soon to be built here. j metrically placed boulders. OtherExcavation of the last unexplored' relics found by Brown were small Indian mound has been completed1 deposits of ashes, bones of small by C. E. Brown, director of the animals, flint flakes, charcoal andWisconsin Historical museum, and .fireplace stones. \students in the University of Wisconsin anthropology department.The laboratory site, about 10 acres In all. includes a hill known;, to be an important community cen-j ter of Indians of comparatively | modern times. Records show that; a band of 100 Winnebago Indians were encamped here as recently as Civil W'ar times.The mound, a linear structure of a tapering outline, proved to con-,Il
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Manitowoc Evening Times
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Fri, May 15, 1931
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