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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2017
Trait manifestations for the Hopewellian, or according to the more recently accepted terminology, the Central Basin cultural phase, have for several years been known to exist in eastern Wisconsin, but the occurrence of this phase with a residentiary cultural group in the eastern part of the state has had no positive indication until recently when a typical Central Basin mound burial was discovered in the Big Bend region of Waukesha County.
The burial was partially unearthed by Mr. Henry J. Peterson while grading a portion of his land fronting on the south bank of Fox River in the N.W. ¼ of the N.W. ¼ of Section 25, Vernon Township. Mr. Peterson immediately notified the Milwaukee Public Museum of his find and kindly invited members of the staff to investigate the site. Mr. Peterson should here be commended for his foresight which made possible the gathering and preservation of data which otherwise might have been lost forever.
77 Curator of Anthropology, Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
78 Lapham, I. A., Antiquities of Wisconsin, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Plate 15, Washington, 1855.
79 Peet, Stephen D., Ancient America, Volume II, figure 137.
80 McKern, W. C., Wisconsin Variant of Hopewell Culture, Milwaukee Public Museum Bulletin, Volume 10, No. 2, p. 207, 1931
81 Cooper, L. R., The Red Cedar River Variant of the Wisconsin Hopewell Culture, Milwaukee Public Museum Bulletin, Volume 16, No. 2, p. 66, 1933.
82 McKern, op. cit., pp. 209, 230.
83 Shetrone, H. C., The Mound Builders, p. 193, 1930.
84 Shetrone, H. C., Explorations of the Seip Group of Prehistoric Earthworks, Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, Volume 40, p. 489, 1931.
85 Greenman, E. F., University of Michigan, personal communication.
86 McKern, op. cit., p. 214.
87 Cooper, op. cit., p. 68.
88 Hooton, E. A., The Turner Group of Earthworks, Hamilton County, Ohio (Notes on the Skeletal Remains), Peabody Museum Papers, Volume VIII, No. 3, 1922, and personal communication.
89 Sterns, F. H., unpublished report, Peabody Museum; Bell, E. H., University of Nebraska, personal communication.
90 McKern, op. cit., p. 240.
91 McKern, W. C., unpublished report, Milwaukee Public Museum.
92 Cooper, L. R., unpublished notes.
