(_b_.) _Complete Pottery Cup_. So far as I know this is the only
complete cup now in existence in the region northwest of Lake
Superior, though several others are said to have been discovered and
been sent to distant friends of the finders. This cup, belonging now
to the Historical Society was found in the grand mound, in company
with charred bones, skulls, and other human bones, lumps of red ochre,
and the shells just described. The dimensions of the cup are as
follows:

Mean diameter at top of rim 2.09 inches.
Greatest mean diameter 3.03 "
Height 2.49 "
Thickness of material 0.092 "
Weight ---- oz.

Whether the cup was intended for use as a burial urn, or simply for
ordinary use it is difficult to say.

Now, in endeavoring to sum up the results a few points need some
discussion.

1. Who were the people who erected the mounds? Judging from the
following considerations, I should say they were

NOT AN INDIAN RACE.

Whoever built the mounds had a faculty not possessed by modern
Indians. Building instincts seem hereditary. The beaver and the musk
rat build a house. Other creatures to whom a dwelling might be