Emblematic Mounds and Animal Effigies, Հատոր 2American antiquarian office, 1890 - 350 էջ |
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agriculture altar ancient animal effigies animal figures animal worship attitudes banks Beloit bird effigies bluff body buffalo burial mounds caches clan emblem conical mounds connection corn hills Dakotas deer described discovered divinities eagle east effigy builders effigy mounds Emblematic Mound Builders enclosure erected evidently excavated feet game drives game-drives garden beds garden-beds Green Lake ground group of effigies group of mounds guard habits head hunters hunting illustrate Indians intaglio Kickapoo river Lake Koshkonong Lake Mendota Lake Monona Lake Wingra Lake Winnebago Lapham legs locality long mounds miles Mound Builders Mound-builders native noticed Ohio panther peculiar picture Prairie du Chien races recognized reference region relics represented resemblance ridge round mounds says seen serpent effigy shape side situated squirrel stone symbols tail tion totems tribes tumuli turtle village wall wild wings Winnebagoes Wisconsin river wolf worship
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Էջ 150 - The islands are covered with fine trees, but we could not see any more roebucks, buffaloes, bustards, and swans. We met from time to time monstrous fish, which struck so violently against our canoes, that at first we took them to be large trees, which threatened to upset us.
Էջ 335 - The otter is in a characteristic attitude, holding a fish in his mouth. The heron also holds a fish. The hawk grasps a small bird in its talons, which it tears with its beak. The panther, bear, wolf, beaver, otter, squirrel, raccoon, hawk, heron, crow, swallow, buzzard, paroquet, toucan, turtle, frog, toad, rattlesnake, are recognized at first glance. The most interesting and valuable in the list are a number of sculptured human heads, no doubt faithfully representing the predominant physical features...
Էջ 106 - ... the head and tail. The neck of the serpent is stretched out, and slightly curved, and its mouth is opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure, which rests partially within the distended jaws. This oval is formed by an embankment of earth, without any perceptible opening, four feet in height, and is perfectly regular in outline, its transverse and conjugate diameters being one hundred and sixty and eighty feet respectively.
Էջ 328 - The mound is situated on a grassy plain. The tail of the serpent rests near the shore of Loch Nell, and the mound gradually rises seventeen to twenty feet in height, and is continued for three hundred feet, forming a double curve like a huge letter S, and wonderfully perfect in anatomical outline. This we perceive the more perfectly on reaching the head, which lies at the western end. . . . ' The head forms a circular cairn, on which at the time of Mr.
Էջ 27 - Is not the existence of such a mound good evidence of the existence of the mastodon and the mound builders."* Another person who visited this effigy and represented it as an elephant, is Mr. Moses Strong, who says, "It is known as the
Էջ 14 - A short distance to the west of them is a natural swell of ground with a tumulus on the top of it overlooking it. An old Indian trail passes between them and the military road followed the same line. Mr. Taylor suggests that the figures were intended to represent the fox, but Prof. Locke remarks " that they have an expression of agility and fleetness and may have been intended to represent the congar or American tiger, an animal still existing in the region.
Էջ 119 - Indians, but they are interesting as illustrating the conveniences for agriculture, which were common. Some of these copper tools are made with sockets and a shoulder inside of the socket, and a blunt, short spade-like edge below the socket, as if the intent was to put them upon the end of a pole or handle and to use them as spades or plows. They are generally well wrought and interesting specimens of toolmaking. They vary in size from two to four inches in length, two to three inches in width, and...
Էջ 151 - As we were descending the river we saw high rocks with hideous monsters painted on them, and upon which the bravest Indians dare not look. They are as large as a calf, with head and horns like a goat; their eyes red; beard like a tiger's; and a face like a man's. Their tails are so long that they pass over their heads and between their forelegs, under their belly, and end like a fish's tail. They are painted red, green, and black.
Էջ 186 - It consists of a great procession of men, birds, beasts, and fanciful figures. The whole picture as placed upon the rock is highly spirited, and the idea of a general movement toward the right, skillfully portrayed. A pair of winged figures hover...
Էջ 328 - The tail of the serpent rests near the shore of Loch Nell, and the ground gradually rises seventeen to twenty feet in height, and is continued for three hundred feet, forming a double curve, like a huge letter S, and wonderfully perfect in outline. The head formed a circular cairn, on which there still remains some trace of an altar. Dr. Phene excavated the circular cairn, or circle of stones, and found three large stones, forming a megalithic chamber. From the ridge of the serpent's back, it was...