blumer

Updated: April 30, 2025

Blumer, another German Lutheran minister, now of Genesee, Illinois, having formerly resided in Louisa County, went down there in company with Mr. Gass to open a few mounds, Mr. Blumer being well acquainted there. They carefully explored ten of them, and found nothing but ashes and decayed bones in any, except one.

Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw - 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

In that one was a layer of red, hard-burned clay, about five feet across and thirteen inches in thickness at the center, which rested upon a bed of ashes one foot in depth in the middle, the ashes resting upon the natural undisturbed clay. This pipe was first discovered by Mr. Blumer, and by him, at our earnest solicitation, turned over to the Academy.

Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw - 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