NATIVE AMERICAN CEREMONIAL PIPE BOWL, XXL Great Horned OWL EFFIGY

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NATIVE AMERICAN CEREMONIAL PIPE BOWL, XXL Great Horned OWL EFFIGY. Condition is "Used". Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.
The Mississippian period begins 1,100 years ago (A.D. 900) and continues in Illinois until 550 years ago (A.D. 1450). Mississippian people lived throughout Illinois. In southern Illinois, they built a village on the crest of Millstone Bluff. In west central Illinois, at the mouth of the Spoon River, they established a large town surrounded by smaller communities, and a large cemetery now known as Dickson Mounds. Near East St. Louis, Mississippian people built Cahokia, one of the largest Native American cities in North America-larger, in fact, than many European cities at the time. Cahokia was a political and religious center of Mississippian life. The magnificence of this center is still visible today in the form of monumental earthworks that dot the Mississippi River flood plain at Cahokia. The largest mound at the site, Monks Mound, is 305 m (1,000 ft)long and nearly 244 m (800 ft) wide at its base, and it stands slightly more than 30 m (100 ft) tall. It is larger at its base than any of the Egyptian pyramids. All of the dirt used to construct this enormous earthwork was moved in baskets by hand. These are a few of the 2,379 Mississippian sites documented so far in Illinois