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The Natchezan Culture Type 1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2017
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Recent excavations and laboratory analyses by the Statewide Archaeological Survey of Louisiana have provided the means for a better definition of the Natchezan culture type and its antecedents. Comparative ethnological data were obtained from Dr. John R. Swanton and Dr. Andrew C. Albrecht.
The archaeological data were obtained from six excavated sites and several surface collections. Only two of these sites were documented; the Fatherland Plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, and the Bayou Goula site in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. The undocumented sites were the Angola Farm in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana; the Laborde site in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana; the Ring site in Warren County, Mississippi; and the Glass site also in Warren County, Mississippi. With the exception of Bayou Goula and Laborde these sites have been mentioned by Ford.
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This paper was prepared with the assistance of Louisiana Work Projects Administration Official Project No. 165-1-64-59. Dr. Fred B. Kniffen, Dr. Andrew C. Albrecht, and Dr. J. A. Ford also provided considerable aid.
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2 Most of the ethnohistorical data have been taken from Swanton, 1911. (Bibliography, see pp. 311–318 of this journal.) Much of this material has been reorganized by Andrew C. Albrecht, and his syntheses were utilized in this paper. But since his work has not been published the references herein were taken from Dr. Swanton's report.
3 Ford, 1936, pp. 50–71.
4 Quimby, 1939, pp. 25–31; 1942.
6 Ford, 1936, pp. 50–53, 59–60.
6 Ibid., pp. 129–140.
7 Ibid., p. 140.
8 Ibid., pp. 98–140.
9 Ford, Quimby, and Beecher, N.D.
10 Swanton, 1911, p. 33.
11 Ibid,, p. 274.
]2 Ibid., p. 270.
13 Ibid., pp. 278–279.
14 Ford, 1936, pp. 69–70.
15 Moore, 1912, pp. 504–507.
16 Ibid., Fig. 10.
17 Ibid., Fig. 11.
18 Swanton, 1911, pp. 272–274.
19 Ibid., p. 272.
20 Ibid., pp. 65, 71.
21 Ibid., pp. 275–277.
22 Ibid., pp. 162–163.
23 Ibid., p. 163.
24 Ibid., p. 276.
25 Ibid., p. 275.
26 Ibid., p. 133.
27 Ibid., p. 163.
28 Ibid., p. 163.
29 Ibid., p. 159.
30 Ibid., p. 162.
31 Ibid., p. 159.
32 Ibid., p. 162.
33 Ibid., p. 275.
34 Albrecht, 1941.
35 Swanton, 1911, p. 275.
36 Ibid., pp. 59–60.
37 Ibid., pp. 275–277.
38 Ibid., pp. 157, 161.
39 Ford, 1936, pp. 61, 64.
40 Swanton, 1911, p. 160.
41 Ibid., p. 143.
42 Ibid., p. 138.
43 The muskets are assumed to have been loaded as the hammers were at half cock and the batteries closed over the flash pans. One of five barrels was sawed at the breach to test this theory; it was found to contain a charge of powder and a lead ball.
44 Swanton, 1911, p. 62.
45 Dickinson and Dellinger, 1940, p. 88.
46 Moore, 1911, pp. 396–397.
47 Ford, 1936, pp. 56–57, Fig. 9.
48 Dickinson and Dellinger, 1940, pp. 84, 87.
49 Albrecht, 1941.
50 Ford, 1936, p. 57, Figs, c, e, and g.
51 Collins, 1927.
52 Ford, 1936, pp. 40–9 .
53 Cf. Swanton, 1911, p. 279.
54 This type was established by Jesse D. Jennings, in the course of his recent work with historic sites in Mississippi which have not been considered in this paper.
55 Ford, Quimby and Beecher, N.D.
56 Swanton, 1911, p. 58.
57 Ibid., p. 90.
58 Ibid., p. 58.
59 Ibid., p. 58.
60 Ibid., p. 158.
61 Ford, 193,6, p. 64 and Fig. 11.
62 Swanton, 1911, p. 159.
63 All of the following ethnological information has been taken from Swanton, 1911, pp. 45–186 and 274–281.
64 Quimby, 1939; 1942.
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