Gifts of the great river : Arkansas effigy pottery from the Edwin Curtiss collection /

Gifts of the great river : Arkansas effigy pottery from the Edwin Curtiss collection /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	House, John H.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, c2003.
Description:	xii, 108 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Peabody Museum collections series
Subject:	Curtiss, Edwin -- Travel -- Saint Francis River Valley (Mo. and Ark.) Curtiss, Edwin -- Archaeological collections. Curtiss, Edwin. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Mississippian pottery -- Collectors and collecting -- Saint Francis River Valley (Mo. and Ark.) Effigy pottery -- Collectors and collecting -- Saint Francis River Valley (Mo. and Ark.) Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Saint Francis River Valley (Mo. and Ark.) Archaeological expeditions -- Saint Francis River Valley (Mo. and Ark.) -- History. Antiquities. Archaeological expeditions. Archaeology -- Private collections. Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation. Travel. Saint Francis River Valley (Mo. and Ark.) -- Antiquities. United States -- Saint Francis River Valley. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5580271

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Other authors / contributors:	Burger, Hillel. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
ISBN:	0873654013 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-108).

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Foreword: Discovering the Curtiss Collection
Acknowledgments
Pioneering Archaeological Explorations in Arkansas
""This Is the Place We Have Long Sought""
""I Am Afraid that I Shall Be Interfeared with by High Water""
Color Plates
Notes
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