Polychrome Bottle Mississippian (Ancestral Quapaw) 14th–15th century In the centuries before the arrival of Europeans, artists in the region that is now Arkansas created slips (suspensions of minerals in water) to paint buff-colored ceramics such as the present example, created using the coiling method. Such vessels were part of the ritual life of the mound­building Mississippian culture found in the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States between 800 and the beginnings of the historic period circa 1600.

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