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A Unique Hopewellian Mask — Headdress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Raymond S. Baby
Raymond S. Baby*
Affiliation:
Ohio State Museum, Columbus, Ohio
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During the analysis of the cremated remains from 4 Ohio Hopewellian sites, burial associations, including utilitarian tools and ornaments, were recorded with 52 of 128 burials. Approximately half of the artifacts were burned with the deceased, while the remainder were placed with the calcined remains at the time of interment (Baby 1954:3).

The cremated remains from a “shell-grave” burial (No. 13) on the floor of Mound Seven of the Mound City group, Ross County, Ohio, excavated by William C. Mills in 1921 (Mills 1922: 491), contained, in addition to other objects, fragments of an artifact fashioned from a human skull.

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Information
American Antiquity , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , January 1956 , pp. 303 - 304
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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References

Baby, R. S. 1954 Hopewell Cremation Practices. Ohio Historical Society Papers in Archaeology, No. 1, p. 3. Columbus.Google Scholar
Mills, W. C. 1922 Exploration of the Mound City Group. Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 31, p. 496. Columbus.Google Scholar
Sears, W. H. 1954 The Sociopolitical Organization of Pre-Columbian Cultures on the Gulf Coastal Plains. American Anthropologist, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 339–46. Menasha.Google Scholar