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Description: View from the left wing toward the head and body of an eagle mound, one of three eagles at the Mendota Mental Health Institute campus in Madison, Wisconsin. This is the largest effigy mound of its type in Wisconsin, with a body length of 131 feet and a wingspread length of 624 feet. This group of mounds, which also includes two panthers, two bears, one deer, and several conicals, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Title: Eagle mound at MMHI
Credit: Own work
Author: James Steakley
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License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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