Their implements.
A community of skilled artisans, these people fashioned many tools for food-getting, shelter-making and clothing-manufacture as well as for more aesthetic pursuits. With nets woven of vegetable fibre and barbless fishhooks of bone and copper they took fish from nearby streams and lakes. With small, skillfully chipped arrowheads they brought down fowl. Ingenious traps ensnared large game. Stone fleshers were used for stripping the meat and dressing the leather. With bone awls and needles sharpened on grinding stones they sewed leather garments. Stone mortars and pestles pulverized their grain. Stone chisels and axes felled, with the aid of fire, trees for their homes and temples. Cups and forks and spoons carved from shell were their cooking and eating utensils.
A MOUNDVILLE INDIAN’S SHELL CUP.
COPPER FISHHOOK USED AT MOUNDVILLE IN PREHISTORIC TIMES.
A MEMENTO OF ABORIGINAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES AT MOUNDVILLE.