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Serpent Mound Illustration

David Sibray and Amanda Hinchman visit the Criel Mound in South Charleston, West Virginia.

The Serpent Mound in Ohio is an effigy mound attributed to the Adena. (Illustration from The Century periodical, April 1890)

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