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Holdings: 35mm slide: 28400
World Region: North America
Region: Southeast US and Eastern Woodlands
Country: United States
Period: Hopewell
Culture: Hopewell
Description: Hopewell ceremony as portrayed by National Geographic Society. In front of a Mortuary House. Arrayed in a feather cape and a copper headdress adorned with antlers and pearls, a Hopewell shaman raises an offering of food at a burial feast. Near a mortuary house, adult male members of the tribe mourn and honor the dead, a man of high rank. Some smoke animal effigy pipes, while others eat meat prepared by women at the cookfire. Many wear face and bo
Image Categories: Activity: Ritual/religion; Text/Graphic/Model: Reconstruction
Source Type Detail: Book Citation: "America's Ancient Cities," by Gene S. Stuart; p. 26 and 27. Washington, D.C.: The National Geographic Society, 1988.

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Full citation: "Hopewell ceremony as portrayed by National Geographic Society. In front of a Mortuary House. Arrayed in a feather cape and a copper headdress adorned with antlers and pearls, a Hopewell shaman raises an offering of food at a burial feast. Near a mortuary house, adult male members of the tribe mourn and honor the dead, a man of high rank. Some smoke animal effigy pipes, while others eat meat prepared by women at the cookfire. Many wear face and bo". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-28046/28046. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 25, 2024.