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MANDAN AND PAWNEE POTTERY 



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from village or burial sites at some point on the Missouri river. 

 Specimen a has been finished by paddling with an implement wrapped 

 with tine cords, and specimen h is tempered with shell, and has rude 

 scrolls scratched on the four lobes of the body. These features would 

 seem to connect the specimen with ware of the Middle Mississippi 

 group. 



Pawnee Pottery 



The National Museum contains an interesting lot of fragments of 

 earthenware brought in by Dr F. V. Hayden about the _year 1867. A 



Fm. 7S— Outlines ot vases from a Pawnee ('') village site, east-central Nebraska. Restored from large 



fragments. 



few pieces are shown in plate clxxyii. They are from a Pawnee vil- 

 lage site on Beaver creek, Nebraska, in the east-central part of the 

 state. They exhibit unusual variety of form and ornament, l)ut nearly 

 all appear to represent small pot-shaped vessels, a striking character- 

 istic being the many handles. In this respect they suggest the 

 handled pots of western Tennes- 

 see, illustrated in plate xii. The 

 prevailing form is illustrated in 

 outline in figure 78. 



The fragment of a pipe (figure 

 79) found with the.se sherds is an 

 unusual feature in the far North- 

 west. 



The paste of this ware is graj', 

 with dark fire-mottlings, and it is not verj' hard. It is tempered with 

 .sand and, in cases, with grains of some dark cry.stalline rock. In 

 general appearance the vessels ai'e much like those of Mandan manu- 

 facture. The rounded bodies of the ve.ssels, as a rule, have been 

 finished with cord-wrapped or ribbed implements, and the necks, 

 handles, and rims have been smoothed off to receive the decollation of 

 inci.sed lines and indentations. In some cases the body has been 

 iiibbed smooth and left plain, and in others the incised ornamental 

 markings have been carried down over nearh' the entire surface, as is 

 shown in the middle left-hand figure of plate clxxvii. 



Fig. 79— Fragment of a clay pipe from a Pawnee (?) 

 Tillage site, east-central Nebraska. 



