Cone
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Title |
Cone |
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Subject |
Hopewell culture
Woodland culture
Mound-builders
Indian copperwork |
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Time Period |
Middle Woodland |
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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. |
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Collection |
William D. Tremper Collection |
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Source |
WH04 Box CF0020; A 125/000160.002 |
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Submitting Institution |
Ohio History Connection |
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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 |
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Type |
StillImage |
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File Name |
A0125_000160_002.tif |
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Image Height |
2448 |
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Image Width |
3264 |
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File Size |
23981932 Bytes |
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Format |
picture; artifacts |
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Extent |
28.4 mm high, 3.6 mm deep, 45.2 mm diameter, 34 g weight. |
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