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The Pedestal Vessels of the Madisonville Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

John W. Griffin*
Affiliation:
Chicago, Illinois

Extract

In his recent study of the Fort Ancient aspect, J. B. Griffin has described two unique vessels from the Madisonville site as follows:

Two of the most unusual vessels from the site have pedestal bases. One of them was recovered relatively intact from the right side of the skull of an extended adult male. This jar is entirely typical of the Madisonville Cord-marked jars with the exception of the stand, which is an anomaly in any cultural group in the eastern United States. The vessel and the stand are 19 cm. high, and the stand alone is 6.5 cm. This unique piece is in the Cincinnati Art Museum. On the other jar the pedestal has been broken off, but there is no doubt but that such a base was formerly attached. This jar does not have any handles, but in its other traits it is a representative Madisonville Cord-marked jar.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1945

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References

1 James B. Griffin, The Fort Ancient Aspect (University of Michigan Press, 1943), p. 137. The complete vessel is illustrated by Griffin in Plate LXVI, Fig. 4. The same vessel appears as PI. CLXIII, Fig. d, in Holmes’ “Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States,” 20th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1903. Both vessels are figured in Hooton and Willoughby, “Indian Village Site and Cemetery near Madisonville, Ohio,” Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. VIII, No. 1, 1920, PI. 24, k, l.

2 Hooton and Willoughby, op. cit., p. 80.

3 R. B. Orr in “27th Annual Archaeological Report, 1915,” Appendix to the Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario, Toronto, 1915, p. 92.

4 Holmes, op. cit., p. 185.

5 George I. Quimby, “The Natchzean Culture Type,” American Antiquity, Vol. VII, No. 3 (1942), p. 263.