Bear Canine Tooth Effigy   Save
Hopewell Mound Group
Description: This effigy of a bear's canine tooth was cut from a thin sheet of mica. The effigy is silvery and the surface is highly reflective of other colors. There is one small, cut hole at the top, or root end, of the tooth. This piece comes 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: A0283_000278_003
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders; Effigies
Places: Hopewell Mound Group