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Title
'
Handy
Book
for
Collectors
"
photograph
Subject
Moorehead, Warren King, 1866-1939
Mound-builders--Ohio
Indians of North America--Antiquities
Indians of North America--Implements--Ohio
Archaeology
Catalogs
Time Period
1800s
Description
Drawing
of an
ancient
mound
near
Cedarville
,
Ohio
. The
drawing
is
on the
inside
front
cover
of "
Handy
Book
for
Collectors
: A
Short
Description
of
Most
of the
Varieties
of
Indian
and
Mound
Builder
Implements
,
Arranged
and
Classified
According
to
Size
and
Use
" by
W
.
K
.
Moorehead
, a
well-known
American
archeologist
. The
image
is
a
drawing
of an
tall
mound
that
situation
in a
field
near
a
stream
.
Three
tiny
human
figures
stand
between
the
stream
and the
mound
. The
caption
reads
: "
Ancient
Mound
near
Cedarville
,
Ohio
.
Relics
from this
Mound
for
sale
, as
follows
:
Fragment
of
pottery
,
Indian
bones
, and
Arrow
Head
, by
Mail
25
cents
.
W.K
.
Moorehead
,
Xenia
,
Ohio.
"
Fascinated
by
Indians
and their
culture
since
his
boyhood
in
Xenia
,
Moorehead
enrolled
in
Denison
University
(Granville
,
Ohio)
in
1884
and
began
collecting
hundreds
of
specimens
from
Indian
sites
near
Granville
. He
later
worked
at the
Smithsonian
Institution
and then
conducted
his
own
exploration
of
Fort
Ancient
in
Ohio
. He also
conducted
explorations
of the
Hopewell
site
near
Chillicothe
,
Ohio
, and at
pueblos
in the
Southwest
U.S
. In
1894
Moorehead
became
curator
of the
Ohio
State
Archaeological
and
Historical
Society
, a
post
he
held
for
three
years
. In
1908
President
Theodore
Roosevelt
appointed
Moorehead
to the
Board
of the
U.S
.
Board
of
Indian
Commissioners
. He
served
on the
board
until
1934
,
when
it
was
abolished
by
executive
order
. In the
earlier
part
of his
career
,
Moorehead
built
a
personal
collection
of
artifacts
found
at his
excavation
sites
, he
later
became
a
strong
advocate
for
just
treatment
of
Native
Americans
.
Date of Original
ca.
1887-1890
Collection
Warren
K
.
Moorehead
Source
P
129
;
Box
2
,
folder
33
Format
Picture
;
Engraving
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
File Name
AL05900.tif
Image Height
2814
Image Width
2814
File Size
16201812 Bytes
Date created
2011-08-05
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