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Dr. Lavin on Stone Piles (MA & CT)
Far too messy for Rock Piles, I'll just post a link to some stone pile info gleaned from a paper by my friend Dr. Lucianne Lavin, "Mohican Memorabilia and Manuscripts from the
Stockbridge Mission House “Indian Museum: The Persistence of Mohican Culture
and Community."
Of particular interest is the mention of "hollows" in the Monument Mountain Stone Pile: “Ezra Stiles produced a 1762 sketch of a
fairly intact mound whose profile shows a decided concavity in its center,
suggesting prior “pot-hunting” in the center of the structure for Indian
relics.”
http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2015/05/monument-mountain-and-other-indigenous.html
{I used some photos of a few "figures" from Eva Butler from my copy of the above Bulletin, which I finally located, which may be of particular interest to Tommy Hudson. I haven't forgotten, Tom.}
5 comments :
It does not suggest "pot hunting" to me. It suggests an architectural feature.
I agree with Peter. On several sites in Georgia the "hollows" appear to be intentional. I have a reference somewhere of these things being kept clean and "pure" of "profane things." I will have to look it up. Tim, the pamplet looks interesting. Do you have a link to a PDF of it? BTW Peter, thanks for the link to the guy in Kentucky. I will see if I can get him to take pics and mark the site on a map and post to this blog; some basic recording.
I think it is a lady.
http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2015/05/brush-or-stone-memorial-heaps-by-eva.html
Thanks Tim, but it is blurry on my end and could not get it to clear up enough to read.
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