Copper headdress found with skeleton 248

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Object Number 2004.1.147.4

Display Title Copper headdress found with skeleton 248

Descriptions

Object Description Written on Board: "[verso] Hopewell Group of Mounds, Ohio / Copper headdress found with skeleton 248 / ? Mooreheads paper, Tuld(?) Mus. of Nat. Hist. publication(?) 211"

Department Photographic

Date 1875 - 1880

Culture

Northeast

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / United States / Ohio / Ross County / <City> / Hopewell Group

Materials Print, black and white ,

Dimensions Overall: 21.59 × 16.8275 cm (8 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.)

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PrimaryMedia	Object Number	Title	Geography/Provenience
Media Restricted	2004.29.1947	Skeleton 248 in grave.	Hopewell Group
Media Restricted	2004.1.149.54	Skeleton And Altar At Mound Twenty, Hopewell Group	Hopewell Mound Group
	2004.29.1900	Copper headdress found with deposit of copper plates	Hopewell Group
	2004.29.1939	North Fork Works. View of bone needles in Mica Mound	North Fork Works
Media Restricted	2004.1.149.55	Skeleton With Copper Head Dress At Hopewell Group	Hopewell Mound Group
	2004.29.1920	Girl standing alongside pile of round, flat objects from mound 2.	Hopewell Group
	2004.29.1928	North Fork Works, view from the south of mound near the Effigy Mound	Hopewell Group
	2004.29.1942	View from south at altar in mound (19W K U) just after it was raised	Hopewell Group
	2004.29.1941	North Fork Works. View from the south at Mica layer in mound 17.	North Fork Works
	2004.29.1906	Bear's teeth, meteoric iron nuggets, copper ornaments and plates, copper bird's head, and nuggets of copper and algodonite	Hopewell Mound Group
Media Restricted	2004.29.2311.8	View from the north of Taylor Mound, showing skeleton with hole in skull.	Taylor Farm
Media Restricted	2004.29.2311.9	View from north of skeleton with hole in skull.	Taylor Farm

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