The Wisconsin Archeologist (Volume 15-16)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In the past thirteen years this society, which is now acknowledged to be one of the most active state organizations of its character in the United States, has been engaged in creating an intelligent popular interest in the historical and educational importance of Wisconsin antiquities. Surveys and explorations have been conducted by its members in many unexplored sections of the state and the results published and widely circulated among students, libraries, and educational institutions. Particular attention has been given to securing the preservation of representative groups of Indian earthworks and other evidences of aboriginal occupation. Other presidents of the Society to date have been the Messrs. Geo. A. West, W. II. Ellsworth, 0. J. Habhegger, O. L. Hollister, Arthur Wenz and Ellis B. Usher. Its present presiding officer is Mr. Joseph Ringeisen, Jr. Fourteen volumes of the Wisconsin Archeologist have now appeared. A more complete history of the Wisconsin Archeological Society may be found in volume 3 of Mr. Ellis B. Usher's work Wisconsin, Its Story and Biography, published in 1914. Local Collections The collections of the Milwaukee Public Museum contain a considerable number of aboriginal stone, copper and other implements collected from village sites, graves, mounds and other places now or formerly located within the county. Many of these were presented years ago by members of the Wisconsin Natural History Society. Some of these specimens are on exhibition and others in the reserve collections of the museum. A recent addition to the archaeological collections of this institution is the G. A. West collection of aboriginal pipes, of about 600 specimens, some of which were collected in Milwaukee County. Of the privately owned archaeological collections in Mi...