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The Restoration and Preservation of Some Objects from Etowah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Douglas S. Byers
Douglas S. Byers*
Affiliation:
Robert S. Peabody Foundation, Andover, Mass.
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Abstract

Steps taken to clean copper objects from the Etowah site, and to eliminate malignant patina or “bronze disease,” are discussed. The objects are considered in terms of paraphernalia attributed to the Southern Cult. One bilobed hair emblem bears representations of figures in ceremonial dress. One of the figures may be an impersonator of the Long-Nosed God.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , October 1962 , pp. 206 - 216
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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