Word: mound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Putnam, curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, will give a lecture under the auspices of the Harvard Historical Society, on some discoveries made by him last summer in the Little Miami Valley of Ohio. These discoveries throw more light on the religious customs of the mound builders, on their ornaments and works of art, and on the stage of civilization reached by them. The lecture will be illustrated with diagrams and stereopticon views. It is to take place in Sever 11, on Monday...
Representative J. S. Robinson of Ohio has recently made a valuable contribution to the ethnological collection of the Smithsonian Institute. It consists of a narrow bracelet of copper plated with silver, found in a mound on land along the Scioto river owned by Gen. Robinson, together with the skeletons of three mound builders, pieces of copper armor and curiously-fashioned arrow-heads. The wristlet is deemed especially valuable as an evidence of the ability of the pre-historic race which built the mounds to plate one metal on another...
From a solitary mound...
...that low mound, stain'd with tears...
April 15. Mr. F. W. Putnam, "The Mound-Builders of the Cumberland Valley...