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Holdings: 35mm slide: 17500
Date of Photo: 1982
World Region: North America
Region: Southeast US and Eastern Woodlands
Country: United States
State/Province: Mississippi
County/District: Adams
Political Location: Natchez
Archaeological Site Name: Grand Gulf Mound
Archaeological Site Number: 22-Cb-522
Description: Marksville Incised, var. Sunflower vessel. A tubby pot with an alternately slanted rim band and a stylized version of the bird motif was recovered from the Grand Gulf Mound in the Natchez Bluffs district (Brookes 1976). The vessel is of thing, high quality paste equaled only by a few mortuary vessels at Marksville and Crooks, and at the Dickerson site. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Clarksdale.
Image Categories: Artifact Function: Container; Artifact Material: Ceramic
Source Type Detail: Museum: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

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Full citation: "Marksville Incised, var. Sunflower vessel. A tubby pot with an alternately slanted rim band and a stylized version of the bird motif was recovered from the Grand Gulf Mound in the Natchez Bluffs district (Brookes 1976). The vessel is of thing, high quality paste equaled only by a few mortuary vessels at Marksville and Crooks, and at the Dickerson site. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Clarksdale.". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-23415/23415. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 19, 2024.