Weedon Island: a burial mound dug by the Smithsonian (St. Petersburg, 1923–24)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1923 · Places: Florida
SUMMARYWeedon Island: a burial mound dug by the Smithsonian (St. Petersburg, 1923–24) [Connections: Tampa Bay, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDPinellas County states that in the early 1920s J. Walter Fewkes of the Smithsonian excavated part of the Weedon Island burial mound and found "ornately decorated mortuary vessels." Wikipedia says Fewkes, chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, dug during the winter of 1923–24. Pinellas County's plan states the site (8Pi1) "was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972."
PATTERNA federal agency removed grave goods from a Tampa Bay burial mound; the site became the name of a whole culture ("Weeden Island")
LENS (WW9)The burial goods of our dead went into federal collections and came back as a culture name
OPENHow many individuals were exhumed, where the remains and vessels are held now, and whether they were repatriated under NAGPRA
SOURCEYat Kitischee prehistoric timeline (Pinellas County); Weedon Island, Florida (Wikipedia); Pinellas County Comprehensive Plan, ch. 14.