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Object Number
2004.29.2254
Display Title
Section of burial mound.
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "Serpent Mound Park, Adams Co., Ohio. / Peabody Museum Amer. Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. / John Cone Kimball, Photographer, 1887. / 27-- A section of the Burial-mound. / Showing the position of several of the intrusive graves, one of which is marked by the four stones at the right of the centre near the surface. The dark band on the level with the large square stone, 1 ft. from the bottom of the mound, is the ash bed in which were several large logs that had been burnt to charcoal."
Keywords
- Site and Excavation
- Archaeological
Subject
- Burial
- Mound
Department
Photographic
Date
1887
Artist
John Cone Kimball
Culture
- Northeast
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
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United States
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Ohio
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Adams County
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<City>
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Serpent Mound Park
Additional Geographic Terms
Burial Mound
Materials
Albumen print adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions
Overall: 10.8 x 17.15 cm (4 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
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