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English: SUNRISE VIEW OF SEPENT MOUND.

Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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buried with this individual also indicated a person of dis-tinction. This collection is especially noted as containing thelargest number of flint discs ever found in one deposit or store-house—about eiglit thousand. A relief map or model of this groupof earthworks forms a part of the exhibit. Among the earthworks which are shown in model is the famousSerpent Mound with the park surrounding it. As the name implies KTHNOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY. 421 this earthwork Is In the form of a serpent winding In graceful curvesalong the brow of a hill overlooking the waters of Brush Creek InAdams county. Everything In connection with this remarkableeffigy, constructed with such a vast amount of labor and located onthis elevated point surrounded by the most beautiful scenery, tendsto the conclusion that this was a sacred spot and probably a shrineof serpent worship among these ancient people, whose village sitesand burial-places were discovered near by. Copyright, 1890, by The Century Co.
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The Turner group of earthworks, where ten years explorationwas carried on under the auspices of the Peabody Museum, Is alsorepresented by a model. Many remarkable discoveries were madedurincr this exploration, and evidence was collected of an advancedstate of art among these ancient peoples. Fire worship and crema-tion were discovered at this place. Another model Is of the forti-fied hill In Highland county. 422 ETHNOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY. Collections from the State Commissioners of Wisconsin, Ohio,Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas and Colorado respectively illustratethe archaeology of these States; and Ontario also has an officialexhibit of that province. With these and the material specially

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