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Clay Pot
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This clay pot was used by the Mississippian Indians. An important use was food storage.
Madison' Projectile Points
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Four small to medium-sized thin triangular arrowheads. The points are usually like isosceles triangles in shape, or more rarely, equilateral triangles.
Grooved axe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The grooved axe was a tool used by the Archaic Indians. It was made of stone.
Stone Pipe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This stone pipe was used by the Woodland Indians of McLean County, Illinois. It was found in Lawndale Township.
Diorama of Mississippian Culture
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In this picture of a diorama at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, Illinois, two Indians, one male and one female, gather corn for food. The male wears a decoration around his neck and a small cloth around his waist. The female wears only a skirt around her waist. Corn grows nearby. It illustrates early Mississippian culture.
Chert knife
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a chert knife used by the Archaic Indians. It was found in Bloomington Cemetery.
Projectile Point
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This projectile point was used by the Woodland Indians for hunting. It is rounded at the bottom with no notches.
Meskawki Lodge
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Traditional house form utilized by Woodland Indians of the Great Lakes Region. Meskwaki settlement near Tama, Iowa. 1905.
Chert Hoe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This chert hoe was used by Woodland Indians for farming. Woodland Indians grew corn, beans and squash, and hunted buffalo and deer. Chert is a very fine grained rock which can be shaped into arrowheads and points by chipping.
Projectile Point
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This projectile point is dark in color. It is slightly notched near the base. It was used by Woodland Indians for hunting.
Mussel Shell Hoe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This mussel shell hoe was used in the cultivation of corn, beans and squash by the Mississippian Indians.
Bone Awls
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Bone awls were commonly used by the Mississippian Indians. They were used to punch holes in skins, clay, etc. They were commonly made of turkey leg bone.
Lost Lake' Chert Blade
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a blade used by the Archaic Indians. Made of chert, it has a notch on either side.
Stone celt (ungrooved axe)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is an ungrooved axe made of stone. It was used by the Woodland Indians. They often used them for girdling trees.
Projectile Point
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This projectile point is light in color. It is notched near the base. It was used by Woodland Indians for hunting.
Late Paleolithic Holcombe Point
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Late Paleolithic Holcombe projectile point found in Dale Township.
Atl-atl weight
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The atl-atl weight was a spear thrower used by the Archaic Indians for hunting animals. It was made of stone. Archaic Indians also supplemented their food supply by gathering nuts, berries, herbs and roots.
Meskawki Lodge, Reproduction
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Free-lanced design, based on a study of Meskawki lodges
Projectile Point
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This wide projectile point has two distinct notches on either side. It was used by the Woodland Indians for hunting.
Projectile Point
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Off-white colored stone projectile point. Equilateral shaped head with a notched stem and a lower flared base. Sharp edges on two sides and point. Probably late Hopewell/Woodland period.
Zimmerman Archaeological Site, near Utica, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Archaeological dig at the Zimmerman Site

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