. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ASTERN UNITED STATES [ It would seem that the builders of the great mound groups aljoutChillifothe, the enterprising people who gathered stores of shellsfroiu the Atlantic, copper from Lake Superior, flint from the lowerOhio valley, and obsidian from the Rocky mountains, Oregon, orMexico, were identical with or closely related to tribes scattered overa large part of a region including parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Though the pottery of this groupof p
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ASTERN UNITED STATES [ It would seem that the builders of the great mound groups aljoutChillifothe, the enterprising people who gathered stores of shellsfroiu the Atlantic, copper from Lake Superior, flint from the lowerOhio valley, and obsidian from the Rocky mountains, Oregon, orMexico, were identical with or closely related to tribes scattered overa large part of a region including parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Though the pottery of this groupof peoples is not nearly so highly developed as is that of the southernmound-builders, as, for example, those of Cahokia, in Illinois, and ofEtowah, in Georgia, there can be little doubt that their general culturewas of an order equally advanced. With respect to the origin of the great numbers of obsidian imple-ments found in the Hopewell mounds, it may be well to note thatthere is no trace of Mexican characters in the pottery of thesemounds; besides, the general trend of the group of ware here asso-. ^V
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