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Image of a Cox Mound style gorget, a shell gorget with four crested birds, most likely woodpeckers.

  • Over 30 gorgets of this design have been found in Tennessee, and they could possibly be made by ancestral Cherokee, Muscogee, or Yuchi people.[1]
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Source Fact and Theory Papers. NUMBER IV. THE CHEROKEES IN PRE-COLUMBIAN TIMES. N. D. C. HODGES, PUBLISHER.
Author PROF. CYRUS THOMAS
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current02:11, 7 June 2007Thumbnail for version as of 02:11, 7 June 2007588 × 509 (363 KB)Aaron Walden{{Information |Description=Ancient shell gorget from burial mound in the Cherokee homeland. |Source=Fact and Theory Papers. NUMBER IV. THE CHEROKEES IN PRE-COLUMBIAN TIMES. N. D. C. HODGES, PUBLISHER. |Date=1890 |Author=PROF. CYRUS THOMAS |Permission=Publ
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