mound-builder

Updated: July 3, 2026

Archæologists must certainly deem it unfortunate that outside of the Wisconsin mound the only evidence of the co-existence of the Mound-Builder and the mastodon should reach the scientific world through the agency of one individual.

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