History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

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this place. In exhuming these graves the only articles which have been brought to light were a few glass beads, a childish trinket, a rusty knife or some similar object. I have, however, been informed by the Indians Ihat when a great man dies, a noted chief, or one who has in Indian ways distinguished him¬ self, his most valuable belongings were buried with him. If he owned horses, the most valuable one was killed on the day of his master's death, but not buried with him. His gun was usually interred with the body, so that with his horse, dog and gun he was fully equipped for business in the new field to which he was going."
Mr. Pickett states that in the year 1846 this peninsula, located in the northwest quarter of section 24, was covered with a heavy growth of hard maple. It was undoubtedly a favorite camping ground of the Indians, as a large amount of pottery frag¬ ments are still scattered over the new cultivated land.
Upon a ^harp wedge of land locally known as Eagle Point, in the northeast quarter of section 26, where the north' and south boundary line of sections 25 and 26 touches the shore of Eush lake, there were formerly located, according to Mr. Eeagan, an old resident of the neighborhood, one or two small round mounds and a number of Indian graves.
Upon the property of Mr. F. Eadke and about twenty rods east of the shore of Eush lake (N. W. ^ sec. 25) there was for¬ merly located a group of some seven or eight round mounds. Mr. Eeagan, who piloted Mr. Pickett over the property, stated that when he first noted them in about the year 1857, before the land was cultivated, they were from 18 to 20 feet in diameter and not more than three feet in height. Although nearly oblit¬ erated indications of five of these mounds are still to be seen. A paper treating of this group was read before the Lapham Archeological Society of Milwaukee, in 1878, by Mr. Thomas Armstrong of Eipon. Extracts of this article were afterwards published by the same gentleman in the United States Smith¬ sonian Eeport of the year 1879. "These mounds," says he, "are situated on the southern shore of Eush lake, on land be¬ longing to Mr. (J.) Gleason in the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 27, and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 26, and were visited by a party of students from Eipon. College, May 12, 1877. The mounds, sixteen in number, are ranged in an irregular line run¬ ning  essentially  east  and  west,   about  twenty  rods  from  the