f Ashland, Wisconsin, told me that he had taken
great pains to investigate this tradition. From all that he could
gather by much inquiry among the Indians and from his own
observations, he was satisfied of its correctness. These people, whom
the Sioux called Ground House Indians, built houses of logs and posts,
over and around which they piled earth until it formed a conical mass
several feet thick above the roof. Their territory extended from Lake
Eau Claire, about 30 miles south of Lake Superior, to the Wisconsin
River near Wausau or Stevens Point; down the Wisconsin a short
distance; thence west into Minnesota, but how far he could not say;
then around north of Yellow Lake back to the Eau Claire region. The
Sioux exterminated the tribe, the last survivors being an old man and
a woman who had married a Sioux. They were taken to the present site
of Superior, near Duluth, and "died about 200 years ago"--that is, in
the last quarter of the seventeenth century.

Gordon, an intelligent Indian living at the town of the same name, a
short distance south of Superior, was familiar with this tradition, as
were other Indians with whom I talked, and who accepted it as a
well-known fact. Gordon related that he had heard "the old men" say
these Indians erected their houses of wood and piled several feet of
dirt over them; and they buried their dead in little mounds out in
front of their houses and a few hundred feet away. He told of a mound
that was opened near Yellow Lake in which the position and condition
of the skeletons, two or three of children being among them, showed
"as plainly as anything could" that they had been sitting or lounging
around the fire, when the roof fell in and crushed them.

There is a "Ground House River" in eastern Minnesota, which probably
derives its name from this people.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Bushnell, D.I., jr., Archeology of the Ozark region
of Missouri. Amer. Anthrop., n.s. vol. 6, no. 2, p. 298.]

[Footnote 2: Bushnell, D.I., jr., Archeology of the Ozark region
of Missouri. Amer. Anthrop., n.s. vol. 6, no. 2, p. 298.]

[Footnote 3: Ibid., p. 297.]

[Footnote 4: Papers Peabody Museum, vol. III, no. 1, p. 16.]

V. ARCHEOLOGICAL WORK IN HAWAII

INTRODUCTION

The ethnologist or archeologist desiring to conduct explorations on
the Hawaiian Islands will find it necessary to begin his labors at the
Bishop Museum in Honolulu. This museum contains an extensive
collec