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Reel-Shaped Gorgets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

James B. Griffin
James B. Griffin*
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University of Michigan
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The interesting discoveries in northern Alabama of a series of mounds which can be attributed to the Hopewellian Phase have focused attention on the copper reel-shaped gorgets. Webb refers to one such in the National Museum that was sent in by a resident of Portsmouth, Ohio. It is possible that this is the copper reel-shaped gorget mentioned by Rau that came to the National Museum from the Hopewell group in Greenup County, Kentucky, opposite the mouth of the Scioto. The donor, a Mr. W. Kinney of Portsmouth, Ohio, reported that “On one occasion half a bushel of these ornaments was found in the same mound and sent to the smelter.” A possible reel-shaped gorget or modified breast plate came from an Adena-Hopewell mound near Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky, and has been described by Putnam. In the same publication a brief report is made on the finds from a mound in Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee. This description suggests a Hopewellian affinity.

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American Antiquity , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , January 1941 , pp. 265
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1941

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References

1 Webb, W. S., An Archaeological Survey of Wheeler Basin on the Tennessee River in Northern Alabama. Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin 122, Washington, 1939, p. 193.Google Scholar

2 Rau, Charles, “Report upon the work in the Department of Archaeology in the U. S. National Museum for the year ending June 30, 1886.” Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1886. Part II, Washington, 1889, p. 106.Google Scholar

3 Putnam, F. W., Fourteenth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. III, No. 1, Cambridge, 1881, p. 101 Google Scholar.