Author
Thomas, Cyrus
Title
Catalogue of Prehistoric Works East of the Rocky Mountains
Series
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology
Publisher
Government Printing Office
City
Washington
Date
1891
Original Date
Comments

Contained on the DVD "Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletins 1-200"

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  • Bookwood Historical Collection, Star Lake
Text

[Counties near to Star Lake]

Ashland County
Pictographs in the vicinity of Odanah, on the Bad River.
Described by Capt. Garrick Mallery, Sci. vol. 11 (1888) p. 282.

Bayfield County
Two mounds 5 miles above Washburn, about 2 miles from the south western end of Chaquamegon [sic] Bay, from one of which a wroght iron nail and a brass buckle were obtained.
Reported by J. Chrysostom Verwyst, O. L. H., in Am. Antiq., vol. 9 (1887), pp. 39, 40.

A small conical mound formerly stood on the present site of Bayfield.
Reported by Gerard Fowke.

Forest County
Inclosure and mounds on an island in Lake Vieux Desert (source of the Wisconsin River).
Brief Description, Schoolcraft, Hist. Ind. Tribes, vol. 2 (1853), p. 91, Pl. 52.
Quote by Lapham, Antiq. Wis., p. 73.

[There are no entries for Vilas or Oneida Counties.]