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ID: 700010697
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700010697
Record Type: Built Work
Images: 1
Bighorn Medicine Wheel (megalithic monument; built by various Plains Indian tribes, including the Sioux, ...; radiocarbon dated to approxima...; Wyoming (United States, North and Central America, World, To...)
Note: Located in: Wyoming, United States; medicine wheel located in the Bighorn National Forest; composite structure with the central cairn and some outer structures
Titles:
Bighorn Medicine Wheel (preferred,C,U,English-P,,N)
Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark (C,U,undetermined,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
megalithic monument [300006983] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, monuments, <monuments by form>)
complex (buildings and sites) [300000202]
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Built Complexes and Districts (hierarchy name))

Classifications:
architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: radiocarbon dated to approximately 1760 CE

Creator Display:
built by various Plains Indian tribes, including the Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, and Blackfoot [preferred,BWR]
builders unknown Plains Indian (Plains Indian cultural designation) [500204070]
Locations:
Current: Wyoming [7007923] (Geographic)
Address Note: Wyoming, Wyoming, United States
Display Materials: unavailable
Dimensions: unavailable
General Subject:
architecture (preferred,isness,undetermined)

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Conceptual Works
.......... Conceptual works by class: for architecture
............... Bighorn National Forest Project
..... Built Works
.......... Built Works by class: monuments and monumental structures
Sources and Contributors:
Bighorn Medicine Wheel........ [BWR]
........ BWR database (2010-) BWR3776430
Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark........ [BWR,VP]
........ BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021)
Subject: ....... [BWR,VP]
....................... BWR database (2010-) BWR3776430
....................... BWR-04 Data Reconciliation (2020-2021)
....................... BWR SSID (2010-) 3776430
....................... BWR DSSC ID (2010-) 71309
....................... Harvard Library BWR contribution (2010-) U31336
Note:
English ..... [BWR,VP]
..... BWR database (2010-)
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