Spear Point Effigy   Save
Edwin Harness Collection
Description: This mica cut-out is an effigy of a corner-notched projectile point. The base is diamond-shaped and has long barbs, denoting deep notches. The thin, translucent mica is several shades of gray and yellowish red; iron deposits may account from the slightly rusty color. 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: A0007_000078_001
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders; Effigies
Places: Edwin Harness Collection