Effigy Mounds

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Effigy Mounds National Monument

 

Effigy Mounds National Monument

An effigy mound is a raised pile of earth built in the shape of a stylized animal, symbol, religious figure, or human figure.

 


Effigy mounds were constructed in many Native American cultures. Scholars believe they were primarily for religious purposes, although some also fulfilled a burial mound function. The builders of the effigy mounds are usually referred to as the Mound Builders. Native American societies in Wisconsin built more mounds than did those in any other region of North America—between 15,000 and 20,000 mounds, at least 4,000 of which remain today.

 

Mounds in the shape of eagles and bears

Native North American effigy mounds have been compared to the large-scale effigy forms depicted in the Nazca Lines of Peru.

Text from Wikipedia

 

 

Proposal for a National Monument

 

a mound

 

aerial view

 

 

 


Woodland Indians

 

 

wanderers

 

 

gatherers

 

 

 

healers

 

ceremony at the mound

 

mound burial

 

builders 700 - 1300 AD

 

a mound builder


 

American Eagle

 

eagle nest

 

constructed by an Eagle scout at
 the Visitors Center

 

 


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