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DescriptionUpper Bluff Lake Dancing Figures plate HRoe 2012.jpg
English: A illustration of the Mississippian culture Upper Bluff Lake Dancing Figures (also known as the Dancing Birdmen[1]) repoussé copper plate found at the Saddle Site in Union County, Illinois.[2]
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Herb Roe, www.chromesun.com
↑Townsend, Richard F. , ed. (11 October 2004) Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South, Yale University Press ISBN: 978-0300106015.
↑ (1993). "A Survey of Elaborate Mississippian Copper Artifacts from Illinois". Illinois Archaeology5: 467-469. Illinois Archaeological Survey.
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An illustration of the Mississippian culture repousse copper plate known as the Upper Bluff Lake Dancing Birdmen. It was found in the same stone box grave as the Upper Bluff Lake Falcon plate at the Saddle Site in Union County, Illinois in the 1880s.