The Mound-Builders

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THE MOUND-BUILDERS CLASSICS IN SOUTHEASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY Stephen Williams, Series Editor Publication of the work has been supported in part by the Dan Josselyn Memorial Fund THE MOUND-BUILDER This life-size figure, executed for the Ohio State Museum, is the first known attempt to portray scientificaJiy the builders of the ancient mounds as they appeared in life. The sculptor, Erwin F. Frey, effected the restoration by using an actual skeleton from a Hopewell-culture mound of Ohio and employing the scheme of anatomical measurements evolved by Dr. J. H. McGregor of Columbia University. The facial features, as the nose and lips, not being determinable by such methods, were posed by a full-blood Indian of the Pawnee nation. Ornaments, implements, and wearing apparel for the most part are replicas of actual specimens found with mound burials. as copper ear ornaments and bracelets, necklace of fresh-water pearls and bear teeth, copper axe, pottery vessel, and flint implements. The wearing of feathers in the hair and of moccasin-like sandals is suggested by vestiges of each found in place with skeletons. The loin cloth is reproduced from actual woven fabric with colored designs accompanying mound burials. The figure, intended to represent "The Prehistoric Sculptor," is shown in the act of fashioning with a flint implement a human-effigy tobacco-pipe, of stone, itself a replica of an actual mound specimen. THE MOUND - BUILDERS A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE LIFE OF A PREHISTORIC AMERICAN RACE, THROUGH EXPLORATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THEIR EARTH MOUNDS, THEIR BURIALS, AND THEIR CULTURAL REMAINS BY HENRY CLYDE SHETRONE THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS Tuscaloosa ISBN 978-0-8173-5086-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8173-8429-6 (electronic) Copyright © 2004 The University ofAlabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica Originally published by D. Appleton and Company, 1930 The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence ofPaper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shetrone, H. C. The mound-builders / Henry Clyde Shetrone. p. cm. - (Classics in southeastern archaeology) "Originally published by D. Appleton and Company, 1930." Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Mound-builders-United States. 2. Mounds-United States. 3. BurialUnited States. 4. Grave goods-United States. 5. United States-Antiquities. I. Title. II. Series. E73.S55 2004 977'.01-dc22 2003018557 ...