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The Short-Nosed God from the Emmons Site, Illinois

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James B. Griffin
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Dan F. Morse
Affiliation:
Georgia Historical Commision, Atlanta, Ga.

Abstract

A copper-covered, wooden, human-effigy mask from a burial in a site of the Spoon River focus of Late Mississippi, about 1200-1400, probably was a rattle much like the specimen from Mound C, Etowah, Georgia.

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Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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