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Vintage illustrations of Mounds constructed by tribes of North America #237446199
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Avondale mounds, Washington co. Mississippi, a typical series of mound tombs. Burial of a chieftain, illustrated by De Bry c1620, Tribesmen mourn around the mound, about the base of which arrows are stuck in the ground. On the mound is the chief`s shell cup. In Arkansas and elsewhere in eastern North America, Native Americans built earthen mounds for ritual or burial purposes or as the location for important structures, but mound-building ceased shortly after European contact due to changes in religious and other cultural practices.
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