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A Hopewell Human Bone Whistle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Raymond S. Baby*
Affiliation:
Ohio State Museum, Columbus, Ohio

Abstract

An engraved human bone whistle, from a burial mound near Bourneville, Ross County, Ohio, described for the first time as part of the Hopewellian complex, was probably used in elaborate burial ceremonies.

Type
Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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References

McBeth, Donald 1960 Bourneville Mound, Ross County, Ohio. Ohio Archaeologist, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1214.Google Scholar
Squier, E. G. and Davis, E. H. 1848 Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley: Comprising the Results of Extensive Original Surveys and Explorations. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.Google Scholar