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The Cultural Context of the Crystal River Negative-Painted Style*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Gordon R. Willey
Gordon R. Willey*
Affiliation:
Bureau-of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
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In 1944, the present writer, in collaboration with Philip Phillips, published a short analytical article upon a newly discovered (or recognized) style of negative-painted pottery from Crystal River, Florida. The ceramics in question, numbering three vessels in all, were excavated many years before by Clarence B. Moore and illustrated by him. They were taken from a sand burial mound in association with a number of other artifacts and with human burials. In our 1944 analysis it was pointed out that these Crystal River specimens exhibited the same technical processes of decoration— a negative or resist-dye application of a dark design background over a lighter-colored surface—as that seen on numerous Middle Mississippian pottery bottles; nevertheless, it was also made clear that the style of the painting, the forms of the vessels, and the quality of the ware were distinctly non-Mississippian.

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American Antiquity , Volume 13 , Issue 4Part1 , April 1948 , pp. 325 - 328
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1948

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Published by permission of the Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.

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