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Title: Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Subjects: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Science
Publisher: (Madison) Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ttitude was as if the animal was looking directlyinto the village, and was there watching and waiting forsome object that might satisfy its appetite. Such at leastwas the impression made upon the imagination by thefigure. The contrast between this effigy and the one guard-ing the caches in the rear of the village was marked. Inthe first place the Q^gj was much longer and moredefinitely raarked. Again, it was situated on the brow ofthe hill, overlooking the land adjoining. Its attitude andshape were peculiar. Our conclusion was that the effigy wasstationed near the village site, with the head fronting theopening, in the attitude as if guarding the gateway. At the entrance of the village site there was a series ofoblong mounds. These mounds were arranged so as tomake a double guard; two of them formed an angle towardthe north, at the opening of which was the panther effigytwo others formed) an angle to the south, leaving openingsat either end and between them, but so arranged as to form
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^v S si Ancient Villages Among Emblematic Mounds. 167 a guard to the entrance; beyond this, following along thebrow of a gentle slope of land were other oblong mounds.A little further on to the south and west was anotherpanther effigy, the effigy this time situated at an openingbetween the oblong mounds, but with the body running par-allel with the mounds, and thus forming a guard across theopening on the other oblong mounds and effigy mounds.Here the efQ.gy was that of an eagle or hawk which seemedto guard the village on this side, and formed the bend ofthe wall. Other oblong mounds were situated on the edgeof the rise of ground, forming a quasi wall at the south ofthe enclosure, and turning back toward the north formedalso a partial wall upon the east side. The situation of thevillage was on a rise of ground within the enclosure, whichwas formed by the oblong mounds. There was no evidenceof a stockade, but the earth-works so surrounded the villageand site that they may have served a

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