Archeology Exhibit, National Museum of Natural History, the Hopewell People

ID: MNH-997

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1962

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 9

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Summary

An exhibit of the Hopewell People, Builders of the Great Earthworks, is on display in the National Museum of Natural History's North American Archeology Exhibit, which opened in November 1962. It contains drawings of the earthworks, hilltop enclosures and burial mounds, and objects from the mounds of southern Ohio. Between 500 B.C. and A.D. 600 was the "Golden Age" of Indian life north of the Ohio River.

Subject

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 9

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1962

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Archaeology
  • Mounds
  • Hopewell culture
  • Hall of North American Archeology (Exhibition)
  • Historians
  • Exhibitions
  • Burial Mounds
  • Indians of North America

Place

Ohio

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

MNH-997

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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