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Title: Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Subjects: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Science
Publisher: (Madison) Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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re no effigies resembling theelephant, anywhere on either of the lakes. A gentleman who attendedthe ^vTiter in his explorations at Lake Puckaway (Mr. A. Aldrich, of GreenLake) gave information in reference to the so-called elephant effigy, andvolunteered to be a guide to the spot. Accordingly, on the return trip, wewent in search of tlie effigy, and in a field which had been plowed for manyyears, discovered a number of round mounds, and one that looked as if itmight have been an effigy at one time, but it was so far obliterated that noshape whatever could be made out. This was at Dautz Tavern, half waybetween Green Lake and Lake Puckaway. Mr. Aldrich informed thewriter that he was with Mr. Theodore S. Wise when he examined thismound, and that at that time it was in the same condition that it was wlienwe visited it. The resemblance to an elephant was wrought out of theimagination of Mr. Wise, but had no existence. In fact it was im- 218 Wisco7isin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters,
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Emblematic Mounds. 219 possible to trace a single outline that would give the idea that it was anelei)hant effigy. Tliis finished the search, for it was evident that the effectof the discussion was to create these imaginary figuies, and it did not seemworth while to follow up uncertainties. The theory in reference to theclan emblem was confirmed, and tlie impression was made all the strongerthat the effigies of Wisconsin were imitations of the animals which wereonce common in the region, and that no extinct animal is to be found rep-resented by them.

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