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Raymond J. Ater Collection
Description: This strand consists of approximately 500 mottled white, light gray, brown, and olive beads. The round beads were drilled through the middle to allow for hanging on the modern string. A few of the beads are irregular in shape and several appear to be stained by copper. These beads come from Hopewell Culture. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large--the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A3062_000180_002
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders;
Places: Raymond J. Ater Collection