'Birdman' copper plate: A 700-year-old depiction of a Native American warrior that may be a woman holding a weapon and a severed head
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This hammered copper artifact depicts an Indigenous person wearing a bird costume and holding a severed head and a mace. (Image credit: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (CC0))QUICK FACTSName: "Birdman" copper plateWhat it is: A copper plate with a hammered decorationWhere it is from: Cahokia Mounds, IllinoisWhen it was made: 13th centuryThis copper plate was discovered in the late 19th century in a prehistoric Native American burial at the Etowah Indian Mounds archaeological site i
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