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ProvenanceExcavated by E. Rush Harris, St. Francis County, Arkansas; Jon C. Griffin, Columbia, South Carolina
BibliographyJolly III, Fletcher and Jack Scrivner. "The Mace and The Mace Motif in the Mississippi Valley." Central States Archaeological Journal, Vol.21, no.1, (January 1974), pp.15-16, fig.9.
Hathcock, Roy. Ancient Indian Pottery of the Mississippi River Valley. Camden, Arkansas: Hurley Press, 1976, p.173,fig.465.
Westbrook, Kent C., and J. A. McEntire III. Legacy in Clay: Prehistoric Ceramic Art of Arkansas, Little Rock: Rose Publishing Company, 1982, p. 39, fig. 22.
Vincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.31.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 6.
Bowl
Date1400-1500
DimensionsOverall: 7 1/4 × 6 5/8 × 12 3/4 in. (18.4 × 16.8 × 32.4 cm)
Object numberT0002
Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor, NYC
Label TextSome of the most striking pottery in prehistoric North America was produced during the Mississippian culture period in Arkansas. Effigy forms of these ceramics range from strikingly naturalistic to fanciful, often symbolically associated with Mississippian ritual practice. Decorated with the head and tail of a bird on opposite sides of their rims, many of these bowls clearly represent birds. In this case, however, the avian details have been transformed into a human head and a tail shaped like the maces carried by the theocratic elite of Mississippian society. (From the Catalog of the Thaw Collection of American Indian Art, 2nd ed.)ProvenanceExcavated by E. Rush Harris, St. Francis County, Arkansas; Jon C. Griffin, Columbia, South Carolina
BibliographyJolly III, Fletcher and Jack Scrivner. "The Mace and The Mace Motif in the Mississippi Valley." Central States Archaeological Journal, Vol.21, no.1, (January 1974), pp.15-16, fig.9.
Hathcock, Roy. Ancient Indian Pottery of the Mississippi River Valley. Camden, Arkansas: Hurley Press, 1976, p.173,fig.465.
Westbrook, Kent C., and J. A. McEntire III. Legacy in Clay: Prehistoric Ceramic Art of Arkansas, Little Rock: Rose Publishing Company, 1982, p. 39, fig. 22.
Vincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.31.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 6.
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