Trailed Effigy Bottle with Two Human Faces / Southeast, Mississippian

Tennessee style chunkey stone

Incised stone earspool decorated with a whirlwind

Pigmented incised shell fragment

Anthropology Item Information

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Title(s):

Trailed Effigy Bottle with Two Human Faces; Ceramic head jar

Culture:

Southeast, Mississippian

Date:

900-1600 CE

Period:

Mississippian

Place:

Garland county, Arkansas

Materials/Techniques:

Clay, grog, trailed

Classification:

Archaeology

Containers and Vessels

Effigies

Object Type:

Effigy vessel

Accession No:

54.1298

Previous Number(s):

V-2110

Department:

Anthropology

Collection:

Kravis Discovery Center

On View

Dimensions

Overall:

Height: 5 1/8 in. (13.0 cm)
Max. Diam.: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
Rim Diam.: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Rim Thick.: 3/16 in. (0.5 cm)

Bottle with concentric trailed lines with two human faces on the body with two applique ridges surrounding the face. Rounded lip, everted rim, insloping neck, ovoid body and flat circular base. Fire clouding on outside of vessel. 7.5YR4/1 Dark Gray and 5YR5/6 Yellowish Red.

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Trailed Effigy Bottle with Two Human Faces. 54.1298. Kravis Discovery Center. 900-1600 CE. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/541298 (12/02/2016).

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