Introduction

History of the site

Excavations

References

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Spiro Mound
Artifact Database
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Arrowpoints

Beads

Blades/Knives

Copper

Maces/Axes

Miscellaneous

Shell

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References

The Spiro Mound: A Photo Essay
Photographs from the collection of Dr. Robert E. Bell
By Larry and Christopher Merriam

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Links

 I will be adding links to other webpages with information about the Spiro Mound site in the near future.

Selected Bibliography

Brown, James A.
1976 Spiro Studies, Vol. 4. The Artifacts. Second Part of the Third Annual Report of Caddoan Archaeology-Spiro Focus Research. University of Oklahoma Research Institute, Norman, Oklahoma.

1996 The Spiro Ceremonial Center. The Archaeology of Arkansas Valley Caddoan Culture in Eastern Oklahoma. Memoir Number 29, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Burnett, E. K.
1945 The Spiro Mound Collection in the Museum. Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Vol. 14. New York, New York

Cherry, James
1985 Transcript of an interview with Walter Guinn Cooper, April 3.

Clements, Forrest E.
1945 Historical Sketch of the Spiro Mound. Contributions to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Vo. 14. New York, New York

Genuine Indian Relic Society, Inc.
2003 Prehistoric American Volume XXXVII, Number 3. G. I. R. S.

Grimm, R. E., editor
1953 Prehistoric Art. Greater St. Louis Archaeological Society, St. Louis, Missouri.

Groves, G. I.
1936 The Northern American Indian Relic Collectors' Association Report
on the Great Temple Mound in LeFlore County, Oklahoma. 
N. A. I. R. C. A. Official Bulletin, Vol. 1, Number 8, Chicago, Illinois.

Hamilton, Henry W.
1952 The Spiro Mound. Missouri Archaeologist, Vol. 14, Missouri Archaeological Society, Columbia, Missouri.

Hamilton, Henry W., Jean T. Hamilton, and Eleanor F. Chapman
1974 Spiro Mound Copper. Missouri Archaeologist, Memoir Number 11. Missouri Archaeological Society, Columbia, Missouri.

Hoffman, Michael P.
1985 Central Arkansas River Valley Antiquities Dealers in the 1920-1950 Era.
Paper given at the 1985 Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological
Society, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Hothem, Lar
1996 H. T. Daniel 1941 Catalog and Price List, reprint by Hothem House,
Lancaster, Ohio.

2001 Indian Relics From the Catalogs of Old-Time Dealers, Hothem House, Lancaster, Ohio.

MacDonald, A. B.
1935 A "King Tut" Tomb in the Arkansas Valley. The Kansas City Star, December 14.

Phillips, Phillip, and James A. Brown
1978 Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma, Part 1. Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1984 Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro,
Oklahoma, Part 2. Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Thoburn, Joseph B.
1931 The Prehistoric Culture of Oklahoma. In: Archaeology of the Arkansas River Valley, by Warren K. Moorehead, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.

Dr. Robert E. Bell- First visited the mound in 1934 after graduating high school, took many photos at the site. Decided to become an archaeologist after seeing how much information was lost during the excavations. Spent the next 70 years studying Spiro.

Harry T. Bell- Robert Bell's father, an artifact collector from Marion, Ohio. He acquired many fine Spiro artifacts, that eventually went to Earl Townsend.

James Brown- Published the most comprehensive study on the Spiro Mounds.

Forrest E. Clements- Worked for the state as an archaeologist, wrote the first interpretation of the Spiro Mound.

Henry Hamilton- Authored two books on the Spiro Mound for the Missouri Archaeologist journal, the first comprehensive effort to record the artifacts that were recovered from the site.

Larry Merriam- Friend of Dr. Bell's, who collaborated with him to put together our book.

Chris Merriam- Larry's son, webpage editor, troublemaker, lol.

Glen Groves- Collector/Dealer from Chicago, published the NAIRCA report on the Spiro Mound

Joseph Thoburn- First archaeologist to visit the site, conducted the first excavations near the mound in the Ward Mound.

Earl Townsend- Collector from Indianapolis, IN

Bobby Onken- Collector from Illinois