. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ARCHEOLOGICAL mVESTIGATIONS IN ]MISSOURI 147 N # .# # ANN^^' ANV''' .^^^>^'' < O . ^ H t O^'* oyer ^lor/a/ ^ ^ ml s/ccAec/ sAii/jes ^. O^S JSunc//e ii/r/o/s O SAi,//y or?/y Figure 19.—Ground plan sketch of south mound near Avondale, Mo., excavated by J. M. t. Shippee: A, Waterbottle (J. M. S. No. 1343); B, C, pottery vessels (J. M. S. Nos. 1345 and 1344); D, stone pipe; E, pottery vessel (J. M. S. No. 1347); F, chipped blade {J. M. S. No. 1348); G, lead and pumice; H, pottery vessel (J. M. S. No. 1346); J, pottery vessel; K,[chipped dr
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ARCHEOLOGICAL mVESTIGATIONS IN ]MISSOURI 147 N # .# # ANN^^' ANV''' .^^^>^'' < O . ^ H t O^'* oyer ^lor/a/ ^ ^ ml s/ccAec/ sAii/jes ^. O^S JSunc//e ii/r/o/s O SAi,//y or?/y Figure 19.—Ground plan sketch of south mound near Avondale, Mo., excavated by J. M. t. Shippee: A, Waterbottle (J. M. S. No. 1343); B, C, pottery vessels (J. M. S. Nos. 1345 and 1344); D, stone pipe; E, pottery vessel (J. M. S. No. 1347); F, chipped blade {J. M. S. No. 1348); G, lead and pumice; H, pottery vessel (J. M. S. No. 1346); J, pottery vessel; K,[chipped drill; cross-hatching indicates charcoal beds with fragmentary bones of small stones and large pebbles was carefully exposed. This blan- ket was diagonal to the general orientation of the burial and must have been placed at a time when the exact location of the bones was forgotten. Closely associated was an expanded drill. ... Of the skeletal material saved, none seem to be rodent gnawed. . ." Two whole and three broken but restorable pottery vessels from this mound are in the Shippee collection (see pi. 42). They are de- scribed as follows: "The water bottle, or flask (Catalog No. 1343), has a flattened globelike body cm. in diameter [pi. 42, c]. The body curves sharply up into a cylindrical neck 9 cm. long and cm. in diameter. The total height is cm., and the thickness is about 5 mm. A light-bufE slip coat burned black in several places is laid over a gray paste. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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