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An Unusual Oneota Vessel from Minnesota

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

James B. Griffin*
Affiliation:
Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Extract

The late George Chamberlain of Lynd, Minnesota, reported a unique vessel in the Minnesota Archaeologist, Volume 8, Number 4. The drawing which accompanied this article engaged my attention, and, through the courtesy of Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Ernest S. Macgowan, Secretary of the Minnesota Archaeology Society, a photograph (PI. XVIII, upper) and additional drawings of the vessel were secured. The vessel was obtained in 1934 from a previously disturbed small mound near the town of Lynd, in Lyon County, Minnesota. The vessel was resting in the right hand of one of the skeletons, four feet beneath the center of the mound. As is often the case with Oneota burial vessels, this specimen is small, having a height of 3 ½ inches and a diameter of 5 inches. It is shell-tempered, and the exterior surface is well smoothed.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1945

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