Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-01-07
Une0rth Eight Skeletons
I'm Century-OId Mounds
Continued from Page One

Ddlly( udu OH SSLetDlISIlIlltIlI IHGIe
of five traders and twenty hands.
It's fort was located on the north
shore of the lake.
AN Indian burial mound located
on the north shore of the lake was
excavated in recent years and
few flint arrow points, a catlinite
pipe and a few trade glass beads
found with human bones buried at
it's base. Traces of former In
dian village have been found in
the cultivated fields on this shore
of the lake. These consisted of
scattered hearth stones, flint and
quartz chips and fragments, of a
small piece of cut catlinite, some
deer and other animal bones and
several flint and quartz arrow
points. In the lake, opposite the
Chippewa village, there is a large
spirit stone or medicine rock to
which the Indian medicine men
formerly went to prepare "medi-
cine" for ceremonial and other
purposes. This rock is sugar loaf
in form with a number of cracks
and depressions in some Of which
tobacco offerings may now and
then be seen. Fireplace stones and
flint refuse were found by the
writer in 1908 on the site of a for
mer Chippewa village or camp on
the southeast shore Of Lake Poke
CANA on the north side of the road
between it and Long Lake. An
early Indian village is reported to
have been located on Strawberry
Island in Lac du Flambeau. In
1908 Chippewa camp was located
on Sand Lake. In Crawling Stone
Lake lying southeast Of Lac du
Flambeau and Long Lakes and con-
nected with the latter by a stream,
there is a spirit rock called the
Crawling Stone" This, some of
the Chippewa believe, is inhabited
by spirit which is causing it to
move slowly across the bed of the
lake.
MIR. Hugo Sauer, Milwaukee, re-
ported to the Society, August s,
1915, on some earthen elevations,
probably mounds, located at the
junction Of Johnsons Greek and
the Manitowish River, between
Boulder and Fish Trap lakes. He
found a conical mound on a point
in Devils Lake, a small lake
short distance northeast Of High
Lake and with which it is con
nected by stream. Several white
quartz arrowpoints have been
picked up on the shore of Devils
Lake, near the mound
The late well-known Wisconsin
archeologist, William H. Ellsworth,
reported to the Society, on August
10, 1907, after a visit to the region,
that from a village site located be-
tween Pike and Round lakes
large" number of Indian nipple
ments had been gathered. Among
these were quartz, quartzite and
flint points and several knives,
hammer stones, a copper point and
awl, grooved hammer, potsherds
ornamented with cord-markings,
bone avis, iron knife blades and
glass beads.
"A letter received by the writer
from Mr. Geo. A. West, Milwaukee,
dated August %, 1913, concerning
the Indian remains at Trout Lake,
contained the following informa-
ton:
l have just returned from Trout
Lake, Villas County. / made a
pretty thorough examination of
the whole shore Of the lake and
find some interesting features not
reported by ]. J. Wright who men
tions some Indian graves, ridges
and corn hills. What / am going
to report relates to Une same that
he mentioned.
The location is NE14 of Sec. IA
41-6E. ! found there seven low OBJ
long and conical burial mounds.
They were close together, one al
most touching the other, averag-
ing about II feet across and 3 feet
high. Each had been dug into,
and around the open pit were
fragments Of human bones. Be
You'd these and in the vicinity are
apparently large number of mod
ern Indian burials. Nearby is a
village site. The ground contains
large numbers of flint fakes.
There are no artificial ridges
garden beds).
The greatest object of interest,
although historic, is the founda-
ton of the old Hudson Bay Trad
ing Post, located within a stones
throw of the VILLAGE site and Of