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Record Details
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17487
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- World Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- State/Province
- Louisiana
- County/District
- Avoyelles
- Geographic Location
- Red River Drainage
- Archaeological Site Name
- Upper Saline Point Mound
- Archaeological Site Number
- 16-Av-13
- Description
- Platform pipe, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. Clarence B. Moore excavated two mounds at Saline Point on Red River. In remains of the "upper mound," a local farmer found a rare lithic example of a Marksville platform pipe. It is made of red and buff silt-stone, a local material found in concretionery deposits scattered throughout Avoyelles and surrounding parishes. Similar ceramic platform pipes are known from the Marksville, Crooks, Grand Gulf, Sali
- Source Type Detail
- Museum: Marc Dupuy Collection
Technical Details
- Collection
- UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Image Size
- 4512 x 3078
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 23402
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-23402/23402
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"Platform pipe, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. Clarence B. Moore excavated two mounds at Saline Point on Red River. In remains of the "upper mound," a local farmer found a rare lithic example of a Marksville platform pipe. It is made of red and buff silt-stone, a local material found in concretionery deposits scattered throughout Avoyelles and surrounding parishes. Similar ceramic platform pipes are known from the Marksville, Crooks, Grand Gulf, Sali". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-23402/23402. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. May 18, 2024.