Leland Incised Bottle with Interlocking Scroll Motifs / Southeast, Mississippian

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Anthropology Item Information

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Title(s):

Leland Incised Bottle with Interlocking Scroll Motifs

Culture:

Southeast, Mississippian

Date:

900 -- 1600 CE

Period:

Late Mississippian

Place:

Ashley, Arkansas

Materials/Techniques:

Ceramic

Dimensions:

5 7/8 x 5 11/16 in. (15 x 14.5 cm)

Classification:

Archaeology

Containers and Vessels

Object Type:

Bottle

Accession No:

54.147

Department:

Anthropology

Collection:

Kravis Discovery Center

Not On View

Leland Incised (Phillips 1970:104) bottle with outsloping neck and rounded lip. Body is globular with a rounded circular base. Body is incised with concentric interlocking scroll designs. 10YR 6/4 Very Pale Brown.

Phillips, Philip. Archaeological Survey in the lower Yazoo Basin, Mississippi, 1949-1955. Vol. 60. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1970.

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Leland Incised Bottle with Interlocking Scroll Motifs. 54.147. Kravis Discovery Center. 900 -- 1600 CE. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/54147 (08/16/2016).

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