Large effigy pipes. Beaded baskets. These are among the archaeologically significant objects excavated from the Spiro Mounds. Often overlooked, this Native American site in the midwestern U.S. is ...

This raptor-with-human-head effigy pipe, which dates to between 1200 ... is a cluster of 12 earthen mounds built up by Native Americans belonging to a broad spread of tribes collectively known ...

A major traveling exhibit showcases some of our country's most exquisite Native masterpieces, ranging from a 12th-century clay pipe to a very ... facts about Native American culture that you ...

Amy Rosebrough visited Madison, Wisconsin’s, Native American Effigy Mounds and talked about what they reveal about the early cultures that l… read more Amy Rosebrough visited Madison ...

Used both for works of art and in ceremonies, the pipes are an integral part of the history and culture of Native American tribes in the Plains. It's at Pipestone National Monument where Erickson ...

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Scattered across Wisconsin, effigy mounds are fragments of an ancient culture spanning from about 400 to 1200 AD. To the unobservant eye, they only appear to be elevated land. But the mounds are what ...

Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) have, through an examination of pipes from 1400 year-old archaeological sites, discovered that Native Americans in what is now Washington State ...

2014-11-16T15:54:36-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/331/20141116155630003_hd.jpgAmy Rosebrough visited Madison, Wisconsin’s, Native American Effigy Mounds and ...