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Show Moiind Builders Cannibals. That the builders of the . famous ! Indian earthworks on the Crawfish I river, near Lake Mills, were cannibalistic, canni-balistic, is the statement of Dr. S. A. Barrett, president of the Wisconsin Archeologieal society. "That many of these mounds were constructed for ceremonial purposes was evident from excavations we have made." declared Doctor Barrett in a meeting of the Wisconsin Historical society. "In the center of some of the higher mounds within and outside of the inclosure were found ceremonial pole walls imbedded stone nnd cement ce-ment made of gravel and clay. In a few of these mounds we have found stone hatches, arrowheads and cellos, nnd in one of them we found an ear ornament :fhat was famous among the Eskimos. From the pottery found In these mounds it is evident that the tribe which built the famous .enclosure .enclos-ure at Aztalan was familiar with tbp Iroquois Indians in the East, the Al-gonquins Al-gonquins and lower tribes of the Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley. This earth enclosure was a ceremonial establishment. It was not a stockade; it was not a fortification. forti-fication. There are indications that the people who built and inhabited this place practiced cannibalism. Among the bones of fish were found dismembered hones of human beings, and these bones had been cracked for their marrow." |