#spiro mounds

[postcardaday]

Middle Mississippian deer mask, 1200-1400 A.D. Spiro Mounds, La Flore County, Oklahoma.

[bolaneno]

engraved shell cup decorated with the Birdman effigy, Spiro Mounds site (Oklahoma)

[tlatollotl]

Mississippian wood statue of a seated figure, Craig mound, Spiro, ca. 1200-1400 CE Middle Caddoan period. This figure was seated at the southern end of the cosmological map of the Milky Way in that tomb, and was possibly an ancestor, 32.5cm, info from Kent Reilly

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[bolaneno]

collection of drilled shells found at the Spiro Mounds (Oklahoma USA); the shells originated from Baja California and the U.S. Gulf Coast region and were obtained through an extensive trade network

image credit: Le Flore County Historical Society

[bolaneno]

earspool jewelry from the Spiro Mounds site in Oklahoma

[bolaneno]

[oklahomamagazine]

The Spiro Mounds offer a look into what Oklahoma looked like before Europeans arrived.

[mirekulous]

Marine shell gorgets from Craig Mound, Spiro, probably made of conch (lightening whelk) from the northern Gulf coast. These artifacts often bear elaborate iconography associated with the Southern Cult. Courtesy Robert Bell and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma.