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Fabric Impressions of Pottery from the Elizabeth Herrell Site, Missouri

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Paul Munger  and
Robert McCormick Adams
Paul Munger
Affiliation:
Academy of Science of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Robert McCormick Adams
Affiliation:
Academy of Science of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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A large quantity of fabric impressed pottery was found during the excavation of the Elizabeth Herreli Site in Jefferson County, Missouri, by the Academy of Science of St. Louis.

Inasmuch as variations in weaving technique have proven of value in distinguishing and in indicating the connection between ethnic groups this study has been made in an effort to aid archaeologists in comparing the finds at the Herreli Site with the results of other expeditions.

The Herreli Site is a village site which belongs to the Middle Mississippi phase of the Mississippi pattern. The reasons for designating this site “Middle Mississippi“ and a full description of the site are given elsewhere.

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American Antiquity , Volume 7 , Issue 2Part1 , October 1941 , pp. 166 - 171
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1941

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References

1 This material was investigated by a Work Projects Administration Archaeological Survey sponsored by the Academy of Science of St. Louis and co-sponsored by the State Museum at Jefferson City. Dr. Thome Deuel of the Illinois State Museum is the consultant. We wish to express our gratitude to Mrs. Herreli for permission to investigate this site, and to H. H. Ellis for helpful suggestions and the use of the Ohio State Museum library.

2 Miner, Horace, “The Importance of Textiles in the Archaeology of the Eastern United States,” American AntiquitY, Vol. 3, 1936.

3 The results of the first year of investigation have been published a & a Transaction of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, Vol. 30, No. 5,1941, and include results of the investigations at this site. There is no evidence of historic contacts. D. I. Bushnell, Jr., excavated test pits at the site and reported on his discoveries in Archaeological Investigations in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 46.

4 Willoughby, C. C, “Textile Fabrics from the Burial Mounds of the Great Earthwork Builders of Ohio.” Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, No. 4, 1938.

5 This technique was used by Holmes, W. H. See Annual Report, Bureau American Ethnology, 1881–82, pp. 397–425. Holmes used clay for his casts, whereas we used plaster.

6 Miner, op. cit.

7 Miner's (op. cit.)terminology.

8 Miner, op. cit.

9 Webb, W. S., The So-called “Ash Caves.” Reports in Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Kentucky, 1929.

10 By “series” we mean one or more woofs in close proximity to another woof.

11 An examination of Fig. 19, 1 shows a rhythm of series spacings of 4, 2, 3, 3, 2-4, 2, 3? but this is only a possibility as we have only one large sherd showing this series rhythm.

12 Dellenbaugh, F. S., “Fabric Marked Pottery,” Applelon's Popular Science Monthly, March, 1898, believes that fabric was used in manufacturing pottery.

13 Holmes, op. cit. believes that fabric was used on pottery as a decorative device.