Seip-Pricer Mound, the second largest known Hopewell mound, developed through a sequence of events that began nearly 2,000 years ago with the construction of an oblong, multi-room mortuary building. Ceremonial leaders cremated bodies elsewhere and interred them in this building, built earthen platforms where ashes were laid, and to a lesser extent placed extended corpses in log crypts. Some 122 men, women, and children were buried here with unusual objects surrounding the remains. After the mortuary building was burned down, the mound was layered over it. A log crypt within it was mounded twice: a primary mound was built over the crypt, but as the logs rotted away the middle sagged, and a secondary mound layer reflects the Hopewell's restoration of the mound. Between 1926 and 1928, archaeologist Henry Shetrone excavated Seip-Pricer Mound and found several large effigy pipes, including one of a dog eating a human head, along with thousands of pearls and abundant implements and ornaments of copper, mica, tortoise-shell, and silver.