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<< Other Photo Pages >> Wyalusing Mounds - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by AKFisher on Sunday, 10 September 2023  Page Views: 118

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Wyalusing Mounds
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 52.15 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound

Latitude: 42.978010N  Longitude: 91.11403W
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Wyalusing Mounds
Wyalusing Mounds submitted by AKFisher : The Wisconsin River delta into the Mississippi River taken at Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin flows from the near right to the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River flows from the right to the left. Iowa is visible in the distance on the other side of the Mississippi River, & Prairie du Chien is just out of view to the right. Photo credit: Wiki (Cindy-Flickr). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Wyalusing State Park is a sprawling 2621 acres overlooking the Mississippi River. Almost on the other side of the river is Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa. More than 130 mounds were once contained in 21 complexes within the Park. It is believed that 69 mounds remain. These are numerous conical burial mounds, linear mounds, and numerous effigy mounds, which include bears, lizards, and other forms. Many of these mounds were excavated in the 1800s. The entire area between Prairie du Chien through the Wyalusing Park area was literally peppered with mound groups, many of which have been completely destroyed.

Elephant Mound?
One of the most intriguing effigy mounds ever recorded is associated with the Wyalusing Group. In 1872 the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology was engaged in the study of mounds in various places. One researcher, Jared Warner, recorded mounds in Wisconsin with Col. Norris. While searching 4 miles south of Wyalusing, Warner and Norris came across an unusual effigy mound, which they measured and then sketched. The mound was 4 feet high, 140 feet long, and 72 feet wide at its widest point. The sketch Warner made had the appearance of an elephant. It created quite a stir and controversy because elephants were not found in the Americas. Even America's ancestors to the elephant, the mastodon and wooly mammoth, had disappeared from the continent by 9000 BC,; although, these early archaeologists were not yet aware of that fact. In 1884 another expedition went to the mound and found that shifting sand had apparently given the mound a trunk-like appendage. In short, the Elephant Mound was probably a bear effigy.

Other Mounds:
Another associated group of mounds was called the Hazen Corners Mound Group. This mound complex, located on the sides of the Black River 9 miles from Prairie du Chien, was in the small town of Hazen Corners. There were many bird effigy mounds and conical burial mounds in this group.[1]

Reference:
1. Dr Greg Little, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016), pp. 431-432.

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Wyalusing Mounds
Wyalusing Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Wyalusing Indian Mounds marker on site. Photo credit: Wiki Commons. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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