Piasa
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The Piasa or Piasa Bird is a later name applied to the creature from Native American mythology depicted in a mural painted by Native Americans high on cliffsides above the Mississippi River. Its origi
Modern reproduction of the "Piasa Bird" completed 1998/1999 on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in Alton.
Underwater Panther, George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian
A "Sacred Eagle" petroglyph—Washington State Park in Missouri
Piasa Bird Historic Site marker. Alton, Illinois
Underwater panther
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An underwater panther, is one of the most important of several mythical water beings among many Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands and Great Lakes region, particularly among the Anishina
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…chain of limestone bluffs in Madison County, Illinois, at present-day Alton, Illinois. Contemporary sketch of one of the beasts is identifiable as the underwater panther type. A second mural site depicting tritons (mermen) was also rumored. Later string of reports claimed the mural was still well preserved and visible…
Pictographs of a mishibizhiw as well as two giant serpents and a canoe, from Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Attributed to the Ojibwe.