What's Inside a Burial Mound? A Look at an Illinois Dakota Sioux Hopewell Mound

This is the excavation of the  Ethel R. Wilson Mound 6 was located in White County, Illinois. The burial mound was excavated in 1950 by the Illinois State Museum

The burial mound was 90 feet in diameter. and 13 feet in height. Carbon dating revealed that the mound was constructed about 200 B.C.

The six burial included one woman.  All of the skeletons had grave good included, included with their burials that were cut bear jaws and platform pipes.

Platform pipes that are associated with the later Dakota Sioux were included with all the burial along with a few conches shells.