Figure 1. Shaded relief map of the region surrounding Cavanaugh Mound.

Figure 2. Phil Newkumet's sketch map of Cavanaugh Mound, made in 1940 (from
Brown 1996:178, Figure 1-57)

Figure 3. Clyde Dollar's sketch
of the mound made in 1958
(AAS site files).

Figures 4-7 are photographs taken by Clyde Dollar in 1958 (University of Arkansas Museum).
Figure 9 is a photograph Dollar took sometime in the 1960s (University of Arkansas Libraries
Clyde Dollar Manuscript Collection: MC489, slide 25).

Figure 4. Facing South.

Figure 5. Facing East.

Figure 6. Facing North. The southern tunnel is open, with fresh backfill accumulated beneath it.

Figure 7. Facing West. The eastern
tunnel is open.

Figure 8. Aerial photograph of the
mound. The flat summit is visible
as as cleared area.

 

Figure 9. Facing NW. Eastern face of the mound has been partly removed. The southern tunnel is backfilled, but the slope of the
mound above it is slumping.

Figure 10. Eastern cut of the mound in
1979, facing SW. Note shovel marks
above the area covered by corrugated
metal. AAS negative # 794342.

Figure 11. Eastern cut of the mound in
1979, facing NW. AAS negative
# 794346.

Figure 12. Contour map of Cavanaugh Mound made with a
total station in 2004.

Figure 13. Loading features visible in
eastern mound profile, about 10 m
south of open tunnel.

Figure 14. Mound stage division visible in eastern mound profile, about 5 m
south of open tunnel.

Figure 15. Close-up view of
Figure 5. Arrows point to features that appear to be displaced gravestones.

Figure 16. Undated postcard of Cavanaugh
Mound with tourist-shop teepee in front.

Figure 17. Aerial photograph taken in July
of 1938. North is to the top. Arrow points to the mound. The summit is visible as a cleared patch surrounded by trees. Prairie mounds cover virtually all of the exposed ground. Note the prairie mounds expressed as lighter colored patches just west of the mound. USDA aerial photo AWA-6-32.

Figure 18. Aerial photograph taken in August of 1954. North is to the top. Arrow points to the Mound.
USDA aerial photo AWA-1N-12.

Figure 19. Viewshed from ground level
at the location of Cavanaugh Mound.
The Spiro and Skidgel sites are possibly within view, but would have easily been obscured by vegetation.

 

Figure 20. Viewshed from the top of
Cavanaugh Mound. The Spiro and
Skidgel sites are easily within this view.

Figure 21. Viewshed from the top of Brown Mound at Spiro.

Figure 22. Viewshed from the top of
Skidgel Mound. Note that although
Skidgel is on the western edge of a
meander bend of the Arkansas River,
the view from the mound is still primarily
to the east, overlooking the Poteau/Arkansas River bottoms.

Figure 23. Shaded relief representations
of several large mounds in the Arkansas
River valley.