Transcriber's Note:

This paper is a part of the Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau ofEthnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-1884,Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 3-120. The index hasbeen extracted from the volume index.

Minor printing errors have been corrected in this version and arelisted below.

p72: Inserted the first word of the sentence beginning "A section of this bed...."
p73: "thichness" changed to "thickness"
p78: "victoms" changed to "victims"
p88: "throughot" changed to "throughout"
p114: "quelqu'vn" changed to "quelqu'un"
Footnote [29]: "Smithonian" changed to "Smithsonian"
Footnote [45]: "Vol," changed to "Vol."

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.

BURIAL MOUNDS
OF THE
NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES.

BY

PROF. CYRUS THOMAS.

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CONTENTS.

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ILLUSTRATIONS....