Looting Spiro Mounds : an American King Tut's tomb
- Title
- Looting Spiro Mounds : an American King Tut's tomb / David La Vere.
- Published by
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©2007.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- ix, 255 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm
- Summary
- Author raises questions about the looting of the lost Indian burial crypt in Le Flore Co OK in 1935.
- Subject
- Indians of North America > Oklahoma > Le Flore County > Antiquities
- Archaeological thefts > Oklahoma > Le Flore County
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Oklahoma > Le Flore County
- Indians of North America > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting
- Indians of North America > Antiquities > Collection and preservation
- Antiquities
- Archaeological thefts
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Indians of North America > Antiquities
- Spiro Mounds Archaeological State Park (Okla.)
- Le Flore County (Okla.) > Antiquities
- Oklahoma > Le Flore County
- Oklahoma > Spiro Mounds Archaeological State Park
- Contents
- 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
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-241) and index.