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| Description: | Children sit atop a conical burial mound in a farmyard at Merrill Springs, on the south shore of Lake Mendota. (Also known as Merrill's Spring.) |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Burl Briggs (far left), and unknown companions pose near a linear burial mound on Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Burl Briggs (right), and an unknown companion pose behind a linear burial mound on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man poses behind a large conical Native American burial mound near the center of Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man poses behind a conical Native American burial mound near the west end of Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
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| Description: | Tapes and pins mark the locations of Native American corn hills in what is now Governor Nelson State Park. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Chief Yellow Thunder and other Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Chiefs at the Blackhawk Centennial celebration at West Point. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Charles E. Brown and Ho-Chunk chiefs at the Blackhawk Centennial celebration. |
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| Description: | Map of location of bones, used in bison excavation project. |
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| Description: | Mountain meadow at Interstate Park. This area was an ancient lake which became filled with peat. Prehistoric bison bones, copper points, and flint arrow po... |
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| Description: | Tent covering the excavation site of the bones of extinct bison. Milo Mickelson and Lester Giesler are standing in the doorway of the tent. |
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| Description: | Five examples of typical Wisconsin flint weapon points. The upper row of points are notched sides and base, and the lower are notched convex base. |
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| Description: | Five examples of typical Wisconsin flint weapon points found at Interstate Park. |
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| Description: | Two Native American men, one of whom is holding his hand palm up, pose with two piles of spirit stones. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Man Mound outlined in chalk looking south. A road bisects the legs of the effigy mound. A small outbuilding can be seen at left in the for... |
| Date: | 12 28 1906 |
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| Description: | Newspaper article about the purchase of land for a park related to Man Mound in Sauk County accompanied by a line drawing of the mound. Article clipped fro... |
| Date: | 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles E. Brown and his wife Dorothy Miller standing outside their home at 2011 Chadbourne Avenue. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Blueprint-style map of Frost Woods on the shore of Lake Monona. The map indicates the locations of Indian mounds, an Indian camp, and various plants. There... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a program for a feast and pow-wow in support of the Lake Monona Wild Life Sanctuary group's attempt to preserve Frost's Woods (Ne-rucha-ja).... |
| Date: | 04 12 1912 |
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| Description: | Diagram of a bird effigy mound found in Frost's Woods, Blooming Grove Township. |
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