Exhibit Schedule & Events Collection Maps Lectures Sponsors Acknowledgments Virtual Tour

On exhibit through May 14 at the National Cowboy Museum

Excavation at south end of main unit

Excavation at south end of main unit

Photograph by R. E. Bell

Ca. 1938

Le Flore Country, Oklahoma, Spiro site

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma

Home > Collection > Archaeology & Looting > Excavation at south end of main unit

More from Archaeology & Looting

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

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

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

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

WPA workers reconstructing ceramics

WPA workers reconstructing ceramics

WPA Drawing of T-shaped pipe

WPA Drawing of T-shaped pipe

WPA Drawing

WPA Drawing

Four WPA supervisors

Four WPA supervisors

Forrest Clements

Forrest Clements

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)

Exhibit Collection Maps Sponsors Acknowledgments

Copyright © 2022 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
All rights reserved.