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THE MOUND PROJECT is a photography series and mixed-media project focused on present day sites where ancient Native burial mounds and earthworks once stood. In Detroit, where one lone mound remains, hundreds were ransacked and leveled by pothunters, grave robbers, farmers, and developers. In their places now sit neighborhoods, factories, brownfields, and blight-ridden streets, and evidence of this ancient past is largely non-existent. Along with former sites, contemporary “mounds” are chronicled, specifically the waste and debris mounds left behind by careless developers and illegal dumpers. In a criticism of the way so much sacred, ancient history was unceremoniously destroyed, only to be replaced with exponential amounts of industrial waste, pollution, and mountainous landfills, the Mound Project seeks to illuminate this hidden history, while critiquing the many layers of failed industrial progress and destruction left in its wake. |
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Great Mound of the Rouge, Detroit |
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Site of the Great Mound |
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Chix on Dix, Carbon Mound |
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Medusa Mound, 4th of July |
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Tire Mound |
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Dorais Velodrome Tracks, Mound Road |
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Dorais Lot Circles, Mound Road |
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Morgan Mound, Conner Creek |
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Mound Complex, Southwest Detroit |
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Fort Wayne Mound |
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Davison Mound Fog |
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Marine Mound, Detroit Harbor Terminal |
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Dragoon Lagoon Site |
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Delray Culture |
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Carbon Culture |
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Tire Tree, Carbon Works |
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Ancient Earthwork, Springwells Mound |
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Last Shack Along the Rouge |
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Seagull Mound, Rouge River |
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Federal Mogul Mound |
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Nike Mound |
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Airport Trailercoach Mound |
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Solvay Mound, Snow |
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Detroit Detail, from the Archaeological Atlas of Michigan |
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Mound Sites, Detroit River |
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Carbon Works Two-Track |
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Utility Mound |
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Medusa Mound Campers, 4th of July |
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Tire Mound |
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Georgia Earthworks |
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Scrap Metal Mound |
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Davison Mound |
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I-75 Overpass Mound |
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Boblo Mound |
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St Aubin Mound Complex |
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Moroun Mound Complex |
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Moroun Mound |
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Moroun Mounds |
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Salts Mounds |
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Moroun Mounds |
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Stalker Mounds |
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Fruehauf Enclosure |
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Wiping Clothes Mounds |
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Moroun Mounds |
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Mayan Mounds |
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Pallethenge |
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Trinity Mound |
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Midden Mounds |
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Midden Mounds |
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Rouge Enclosure |
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Trailer Park Site |
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Fox Creek Site |
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Detroit 1764 |
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Detroit 1813 |
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Detroit 1844 |
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