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Destroyed mounds at Spiro site

Destroyed mounds at Spiro site

Photograph by R. E. Bell

Ca. 1935

Le Flore Country, Oklahoma, Spiro site

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma

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Pot hunters digging in the area of the third mound unit of Craig Mound

Pot hunters digging in the area of the third mound unit of Craig Mound

North view

WPA Drawing

WPA Drawing

WPA workers reconstructing ceramics

WPA workers reconstructing ceramics

Lear Howell and his wife with looted artifacts from the Spiro and other surrounding sites

Lear Howell and his wife with looted artifacts from the Spiro and other surrounding sites

“A ‘King Tut’ Tomb in the Arkansas Valley”

“A ‘King Tut’ Tomb in the Arkansas Valley”

Four WPA supervisors

Four WPA supervisors

WPA mural of hypothetical Spiroan characters

WPA mural of hypothetical Spiroan characters

based on objects found at Spiro

Craig Mound in the snow

Craig Mound in the snow

Exhibit Publication

Recovering Ancient Spiro Native American Art, Ritual, and Cosmic Renewal

Edited by Eric D. Singleton and F. Kent Reilly III

Hardcover ($55) Softcover ($40)

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