I took these pictures of the mannequins at Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville, Illinois. One of the greatest cities of the world, Cahokia was larger than London in AD 1250. The Mississippians who lived here were accomplished builders who erected a wide variety of structures from practical homes for everyday living to monumental public works that have maintained their grandeur for centuries.
More room to play outdoors
As you can see from the pictures, the huts did not allow enough light or room for the inhabitants to pursue their hobbies or activities of daily life and such interests were pursued outdoors. This fostered a sense of community and togetherness.
Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it. – Leonardo Da Vinci
This is my entry for this weeks Photo challenge: Room.
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What a fascinating place, would like to visit sometime. It is so strange that people just “disappeared.” 20,000 of them? Similar to the people who “disappeared” from Macchu Picchu.
I just came back from Canyon de Chelly where the Anasazi “disappeared” from during a similar time period.
That is indeed very interesting. Thanks for stopping by and your comment.
This must be a great event. Our rooms inside are getting bigger and the outside smaller thought. 🙂
This museum was fun.
Yes, people are building larger homes and are forgetting to enjoy outdoors as much. Thanks for your comment and stopping by.
Wonderful, thanks for sharing! Tess
You are welcome Tess!
Ok…I’m embarrassed to say, but I thought the first two pictures were “real” live people. Then I got that you were at a museum. So I guess that means they were fabulous photos! Very interesting!! 🙂
Those mannequins look so real, don’t they? I am glad you found this post interesting. 🙂
I see you lasted long enough to get the prompt. 🙂 I’ll have to see where this is in Illinois, since we live in the Chicago area. There’s so much of Illinois that’s south of us!!
janet
I knew Saturday was busier for me Janet so I stuck it out for the prompt. 🙂
Cahokia is closer to St. Louis and a day trip could be planned along with a visit to St. Louis Arch. I would suggest to choose a cooler day for your trip in case you wanted to climb up the mound.
So different from our world today where kids spend all day indoors playing games and watching tv huh? they had it figured out right in those days 🙂
You are so right and with even a two thousand square feet home, people can be found complaining that they do not have enough “room”. Hey, Thanks for your comment and stopping by.
Exactly! 🙂
I never got around to seeing inside Cahokia when I frequented southern Illinois last year. Maybe next time.
You will need couple of hours to tour the place and another 45 minutes if you were to climb up the mound. It is good to hear from you. Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Well, happy I wasn’t alone in thinking these were real people for a bit! Good choice for the challenge!
Thanks Tina! I agree they look very real. 🙂
Like your take on Cahokia, I wrote about it for the challenge a few weeks ago, it’s here if you’d like to take a look:http://wp.me/p2owKx-DC
Anyway, I found that visitor’s center really interesting.
Nice post for the challenge this week 🙂
Thank you. I sure will take a look. 🙂
Your family goes to such interesting places! I agree, we spend to much time inside, myself included. The pics do look real. I need to start a bucket list and put this on it. Thank you!
I love your idea of having a bucket list. I should start one too. Cahokia Mounds is close by, so you can get this one checked off pretty quickly. Choose a cool day if you decide to climb the mound.
Interesting! Outdoors seems to be almost forgotten by many people nowadays. I think that’s one reason people are more sickly and less strong than in the old days.
I agree exercising in fresh air is so beneficial to being healthy. You bring such an important observation to this discussion. Thanks for this comment.
Looks like a very interesting exhibit to visit. Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it.
Such lifelike mannequins! I am fascinated by the history of native people in the Americas. Would love to visit here someday.
I do hope you can visit and learn about the history of native Americans. Thanks for stopping by today. 🙂
Thanks for that piece of history:)
You are welcome! 🙂
I attended and graduated from SIUE. I think that in proximity to Cahokia. I cant recall going there though.
Yes, it is very close to Edwardsville. Maybe, if you visit the area again you could plan a trip. It is an interesting place. 🙂
it seems its worth the visit from your photos. If I ever find myself in the area again, it will be on my to do list-as long as I remember.
That sounds like a good plan Lana. Thanks for visiting my blog. 🙂
You are welcome and thank you as well ^ ^
Look so real and so educative too. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Regards.
They do look real! I am glad you enjoyed this post.
You are welcome!
very good post
Thank you Tanveer
my please dear >3