Peabody Collection Highlights

These objects are typical of those studied by today's educators, students, and scholars. Selected from the Peabody Museum's more than 600,000 archaeological and ethnographic items, these artifacts—regularly used in art, science, and history classes led by the Peabody educators—highlight the depth and breadth of the collections and their considerable geographic and temporal range throughout the Americas.

Hopewell panpipes; copper; Miami County, Ohio; c. 100 BC to AD 400<br />
The copper tube would have held a reed pipe. Copper panpipes are well known from Hopewellian ceremonial contexts, though the tunes they played are lost to the ages. Peabody curator Warren Moorehead excavated the Hopewell mound group for the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, held in 1893.

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Hopewell panpipes; copper; Miami County, Ohio; c. 100 BC to AD 400
The copper tube would have held a reed pipe. Copper panpipes are well known from Hopewellian ceremonial contexts, though the tunes they played are lost to the ages. Peabody curator Warren Moorehead excavated the Hopewell mound group for the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, held in 1893.

Peabody Collection Highlights

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