Antiquities of Wisconsin (1855)
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An electronic edition of the noted work Antiquities of Wisconsin, by the nineteenth-century naturalist and engineer Increase A. Lapham. The book is a survey of Indian effigy mounds found in locations throughout Wisconsin, including by the shores of Lakes Michigan and Superior and the basins of the Pishtaka, Rock, Neenah, and Wisconsin Rivers. Published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1855, the book describes artifacts and burials excavated from the mounds and includes phrenological analyses of skulls. All plates and engravings from the original work are included. Less
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Grade: 9 to 12, Graduate
Topics: Humanities, Nature & Method of Science, History-Social Science
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