- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Drawing of the posthole pattern of a mid-18th century Cherokee townhouse at Mialoquo, created in 1977] / [by Marion Drescher]
- Creator:
- Drescher, Marion
- Publisher:
- Photograph held by the Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, photograph mm021.
- Date of Original:
- 1977
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Antiquities
Cherokee Indians--Dwellings
Salvage archaeology
Historic sites
Holes - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
- Medium:
- diagrams
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a drawing of a posthole pattern of an 18th century Cherokee winter townhouse at Mialoquo. Overhill townhouses were situated in a common village plaza. There was generally a winter townhouse, which was a large circular dome in which a fire could be built in the center and an adjacent rectangular open pavilion for summer use. Both were used for public social and political activity. Excavations of Mialoquo were conducted by the University of Tennessee in 1977 as part of the Tellico Archaeological Project in anticipation of the flooding of the Lower Little Tennessee River by the Tellico Dam Reservoir. The excavations were conducted under contract with the National Park Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Principal investigator, Jefferson Chapman. Field Director, Gerald F. Schroedl.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- mm021
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm021
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm021#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm021/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 page/leaf
- Holding Institution:
- Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
- Rights:
-
