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Raymond J. Ater Collection
Description: This very thin piece of mica was cut into a fan shape. The base of the fan is mostly square and the corners are broken. The item may have traces of red or brown paint on it. There appears to be a pattern cut in the top layer, a semi-circle running from side edge to side edge, about two-thirds from the bottom. Above this section are two semi-circular cut-outs on either side of a strip that is now broken, but may have originally run to the top edge. The mica is very pale brown, yellowish brown, and very dark grayish brown in color. This piece is 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_000188_014
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders;
Places: Raymond J. Ater Collection