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"Reinterpretations of Ancient Spiro: The Ritual Realm of the Mississippians"

SOME ASSOCIATED MOUND OBJECTS IN PRESENTATION On Sunday, February 22, 2026, Dr. Eric Singleton, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Native American Art and Ethnology at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum gave a presentation on Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma for the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site Virtual Winter Lecture Series. "The Spiro site in Oklahoma is perhaps the most unique ritual site ever identified in North America. Discovered in 1933 by a group of looters, the Spiro Mounds became the impetus for some of the first antiquity laws in the state of Oklahoma and eventually the country. What was found at the site was the single largest assemblage of Mississippian ritual material ever discovered. Concentrated in a single Hollow Chamber, one mound in particular contained thousands of ritual items that appear to have been used in a ritual to reverse a climactic upheaval and restart time. This presentation focuses on the history, archaeology, and reinterpretation of the material culture items found at the Spiro site in Oklahoma. What items were interred at Spiro, where did come from, and what how were they utilized?" About Eric Singleton: Eric D. Singleton, PhD is the McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Native American Art & Ethnology at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. His research focuses on North American Great Plains and Southeastern two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork as well as pre-Columbian and historical symbology, ritual, and belief. He has co-authored four books, won two Oklahoma Book of the Year awards, completed 24 exhibitions, and worked on four documentaries. He is on the Board of the Oscar B. Jacobson Foundation, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Museum Foundation, and the Caddo Archaeological Journal.