Title	Cone
Subject	Hopewell culture Woodland culture Mound-builders Indian copperwork
Time Period	Middle Woodland
Description	This small copper cup has a conical bottom that is filled with approximately 25 small quartz pebbles; it may be one half of a rattle. There is some sort of material, possibly wood, adhered to the bottom of the cone. The copper of the cone is corroded and is grayish green in color. This piece comes from Hopewell Culture. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large - the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior.
Collection	William D. Tremper Collection
Source	WH04 Box CF0020; A 125/000160.002
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/collections--archives/digital-collections--services/rights--reproduction
Type	StillImage
File Name	A0125_000160_002.tif
Image Height	2448
Image Width	3264
File Size	23981932 Bytes
Format	picture; artifacts
Extent	28.4 mm high, 3.6 mm deep, 45.2 mm diameter, 34 g weight.

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