@DrGregLittle2 Craig Mound is the King Tut's Tomb of eastern North America

@DrGregLittle2 One of my longtime favorites. The rattlesnake/spider interpenetration is superb. The beaded forelocks, the beaded mohawks... Again, I assume they are vomiting.

@DrGregLittle2 As Phillips and Brown wrote, animal/human and animal/animal interpenetration was a common Spiro artistic motif.

@DrGregLittle2 I assume the fellow is vomiting from drinking some variation of the black drink, the ceremonial emetic.

@DrGregLittle2 Beaded forelocks were popular then. As far as his body decorations, it's hard to know if they're tattoos or adornments.

@DrGregLittle2 @HeatherLArnold Cool. I look forward to the details. Chillicothe is the Valley of the Kings of the ancient eastern USA.

@DrGregLittle2 I wonder what species of bird.

@DrGregLittle2 Superb artistry. I suspect there were maybe only two or three top-notch Mississippian copper and shell artists whose works spread throughout the region. (FWIW, I don't think it's legal in Florida to dance with severed heads anymore.)

I can hear you asking, "What does this Toadstool Shadow of yours sound like, Cousin Chris?" Well, here is a quick three-song medley, with songs about the Ohio Islands of Lake Erie, corn, and a tragically lost potato.

@DrGregLittle2 "Pre-Tik Tok influencer:" you made me smile.

@DrGregLittle2 I'm driving from Chillicothe to Marietta in the next week or so.

@DrGregLittle2 I did not know there was a bump left of the original Adena mound. I will look more closely next time I'm there.

@DrGregLittle2 @TheStrangeRoad @OhioHistory Wow. That is very informative. I hope some enterprising American can arrange a trade of British artifacts, housed in America, for the S & D collection.

@TheStrangeRoad @DrGregLittle2 @OhioHistory Didn't Squier & Davis themselves sell their massive collections to a museum in London?

@DrGregLittle2 Adena tablets are the best!

@DrGregLittle2 That copper plate shows some serious artistry.

@DrGregLittle2 Folks did so much with "red ochre" back then. I wonder if red ochre adheres to wet clay? I haven't heard of evidence of Cahokia mounds being red, but am not surprised. If I could throw a frisbee really (really) well, I could hit Story Mound in Chillicothe. Thank you

@DrGregLittle2 The red Mississippian mound you mentioned before was Shiloh. I wonder how hard sun-baked clay can get? DuPratz didn't write anything about the Natchez mound exterior surfacing in his book, to my reading.