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Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley - Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the - Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, - Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166 by Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw
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24.--Woodpecker 146
25.--Eagle from Squier and Davis 146
26.--Rattlesnake from Squier and Davis 147
27.--Big Elephant Mound in Grant County, Wisconsin 153
28.--Elephant Pipe. Iowa 155
29.--Elephant Pipe. Iowa 156
30.--The Alligator Mound near Granville, Ohio 159
31.--Carvings of heads 162
32.--Carvings of heads 162
33.--Carvings of heads 162
34.--Carving of head 163
35.--Carving of head 163

ANIMAL CARVINGS FROM MOUNDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.

BY H. W. HENSHAW.

INTRODUCTORY.

The considerable degree of decorative and artistic skill attained by the
so-called Mound-Builders, as evidenced by many of the relics that have
been exhumed from the mounds, has not failed to arrest the attention of