Looting Spiro Mounds : an American King Tut's tomb

Title
  1. Looting Spiro Mounds : an American King Tut's tomb / David La Vere.
Published by
  1. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2007], ©2007.
Author
  1. La Vere, David.

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Description
  1. ix, 255 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
  1. "When a group of relic hunters drove their picks into a lost Indian burial crypt in eastern Oklahoma in 1935, they unearthed a vast treasure trove of Mississippian art - considered by many at the time to be America's answer to King Tut's Tomb. They also ignited a controversy that continues to have repercussions throughout archaeological and American Indian communities." "The Spiro Mounds contained some of the most impressive pre-Columbian Indian art ever found. In Looting Spiro Mounds, David La Vere takes readers behind the scenes of this discovery to re-create a Great Depression-era archaeological adventure worthy of Indiana Jones."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  1. Excavations (Archaeology) > Oklahoma > Le Flore County
  2. Indians of North America > Antiquities > Collection and preservation
  3. Spiro Mounds Archaeological State Park (Okla.)
  4. Archaeological thefts > Oklahoma > Le Flore County
  5. Indians of North America > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting
  6. Le Flore County (Okla.) > Antiquities
  7. Indians of North America > Oklahoma > Le Flore County > Antiquities
Contents
  1. 1. The mounds : 1934 -- 2. The founding : 800-1100 -- 3. The Pocola Mining Company : 1933-1934 -- 4. Ceremonial center : 110-1250 -- 5. The great temple mound : 1934-1935 -- 6. City of the dead : 1250-1450 -- 7. An American King Tut's tomb : Kansas City and Spiro, 1935-1936 -- 8. Dividing the loot : 1936-1960 -- 9. The WPA excavations : 1936-1941 -- 10. The Spiro mysteries : 1941-present.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-241) and index.