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.
Author
  1. La Vere, David.

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Description
  1. ix, 255 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm
Summary
  1. Author raises questions about the looting of the lost Indian burial crypt in Le Flore Co OK in 1935.
Subject
  1. Indians of North America > Oklahoma > Le Flore County > Antiquities
  2. Archaeological thefts > Oklahoma > Le Flore County
  3. Excavations (Archaeology) > Oklahoma > Le Flore County
  4. Indians of North America > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting
  5. Indians of North America > Antiquities > Collection and preservation
  6. Antiquities
  7. Archaeological thefts
  8. Excavations (Archaeology)
  9. Indians of North America > Antiquities
  10. Spiro Mounds Archaeological State Park (Okla.)
  11. Le Flore County (Okla.) > Antiquities
  12. Oklahoma > Le Flore County
  13. Oklahoma > Spiro Mounds Archaeological State Park
Contents
  1. List of illustrations -- Prologue -- The Mounds : 1934 -- The Founding : 800-1100 -- The Pocola Mining Company : 1933-1934 -- Ceremonial center : 1100-1250 -- The Great Temple Mound : 1934-1935 -- City of the Dead : 1250-1450 -- An American King Tut's tomb : Kansas City and Spiro, 1935-1936 -- Dividing the loot : 1936-1960 -- The WPA excavations : 1936-1941 -- The Spiro mysteries : 1941-present -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-241) and index.