The Plymouth Colony Archive Project


Death's Head, Cherub, Urn and Willow

By James Deetz and Edwin S. Dethlefsen

Figure 1


Originally published in
Natural History Vol. 76(3) 1967, pp. 29-37.

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Stylistic sequence in gravestones from a cemetery in Stoneham, Massachusetts

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