Note 1772 — Chapter VI · (continued 3)

None of the bones of extinct animals have been found in the mounds; nor has the buffalo, long a ranger of the Mississippi Valley, been identified in the shapes of the mounds. (Cf. Peet on the identification of animal mounds in Amer. Antiq., vi. 176.) Peet holds they followed the mastodon period (Ibid. ix. 67). The elephant mound, so called, has been often shown in cuts. (Cf. Smithsonian Rept., 1877, accompanying a paper by J. Warner, and Powell’s Second Rept. Bur. of Eth., 153.) Henshaw here discredits the idea of its being intended for an elephant. The evidence of elephant pipes is thought uncertain. Cf. article on mound pipes by Barber in Amer. Naturalist, April, 1882.