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Object Number
2004.1.147.62
Display Title
Section of upper burial ground, showing portions of two skeletons
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. / 24 - Section of Upper 4 ft. of the Burial-mound, showing portions of two skeletons of bodies / which were intrusive burials. / Nine skeletons were found in differnt portions of the upper part of the mound, some of which were less than a foot below the present / surface, and all were intrusive burials, as shown by the disturbance of the earth above them."
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: 10.9538 × 17.9388 cm (4 5/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
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