178 Hopewell Mound Group 



indicate that the Cahokia people were quite different from the builders 

 of the Hopewell group. There are some indications of a mingling of 

 northern and southern cultures, yet it is premature to make the state- 

 ment positively. 



Mound 25, as seen by Atwater, and Squier and Davis, was the 

 nearest approach to the pyramid type that existed in the State of Ohio ; 

 yet it is scarcely probable that its form was due to a knowledge of the 

 southern pyramids, as is evinced in the case of the Cahokia pyramids. 



Hopewell is a very highly developed local culture, very much 

 specialized and confined to an area approximately 150 by 125 miles 

 in extent. Notwithstanding the fact that ceramic art was more highly 

 developed in the south, it is safe to assume that in copper, quartz 

 crystal, bone and pipe effigies the Hopewell people were not surpassed 

 and seldom equalled by any other tribe of Indians, either ancient or 

 modern, within the area embraced by the United States. 



It is my belief that Hopewell itself was the metropolis of this ancient 

 people, where resided the chief traders or merchants, as well as the 

 most skilled artisans. 



