Portrait of George Pepper and George Heye

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Collection Creator: Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957; Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation

See more items in: Nacoochee Mound excavation photographs; Nacoochee Mound excavation photographs / Series 2: Photographic prints of George Heye and Staff

Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Nacoochee Mound excavation photographs, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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Scope and Contents: Outdoor portrait of George H. Pepper and George Gustav Heye posed next to an elaborately decorated wooden summer house on top of Nacoochee Mound in Georgia.

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Nacoochee Mound excavation photographs

Creator

Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957

Summary

The photographs in this collection document the excavation of the Nacoochee Mound, located along the banks of the upper Chattahoochee River in the mountains of northeast Georgia, in the summer of 1915. The excavation was a joint project between the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation and the Bureau of American Ethnology.