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Title	Seip Mound Photographs
Subject	American Indians in Ohio Geography and Natural Resources Mounds (Burials) Hopewell culture
Place	Bainbridge (Ohio) Ross County (Ohio)
Description	Two 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm) photographs document Seip Mound, the central mound in a group of geometric earthworks near Bainbridge, Ohio. Farming and erosion have degraded the surrounding earthworks, leaving the central mound as the most prominent feature. It is 240 feet long, 130 feet wide, and 30 feet high. Seip Mound is part of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, which also includes four other sites in the region: High Bank Works, Hopeton Earthworks, Hopewell Mound Group, and Mound City National Monument. From about 200 B.C. to A.D. 500, the Ohio River valley was a focal point of the prehistoric Hopewell culture, a broad network of beliefs and practices among different American Indian groups over a large portion of eastern North America. The culture is characterized by the construction of enclosures made of earthen walls, often built in geometric patterns, and mounds of various shapes. Visible remnants of Hopewell culture are concentrated in the Scioto River valley near present-day Chillicothe, Ohio. The most striking Hopewell sites contain earthworks in the form of squares, circles, and other geometric shapes. Many of these sites were built to a monumental scale, with walls up to 12 feet high outlining geometric figures more than 1000 feet across. Conical and loaf-shaped earthen mounds up to 30 feet high are often found in association with the geometric earthworks.
Creator	Ohio. Dept. of Development
Date of Original	1960 - 1970 circa
Collection	Ohio Department of Industrial and Economic Development Collection
Source	Audiovisual material; State Archives Series 741, Box 4
Format	picture
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
Date created	2010-06-04

Title	Om3079_3671666_001
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om3079_3671666_001.tif
Image Height	3051
Image Width	3798
File Size	2609.033 KB
Date created	2009-01-20

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