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Object Number
2004.1.147.34
Display Title
Neck of Serpent Mound at the right, Small Mound beyond stump
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. / 12- Neck of Serpent, showing the Low Mound (about 30 ft. in diameter) at the right, and a Small Mound / (about 2 ft. high) just beyond the stump. / The 'wash' from the serpent and from the largest of the two mounds, with soil of recent formation, had connected the mound with / the serpent..."
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
Dimensions
Overall: 11.1125 × 16.1925 cm (4 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.)
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