Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss Collection

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John H. House Ian W. Brown

Gifts of the Great River

Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss Collection

John H. House, Ian W. Brown

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.
22 January 2004

Ceramics: artworks; Archaeology by period & region

Series: Peabody Museum Collections Series

In 1879 Edwin Curtiss set out for the wild St. Francis River region of northeastern Arkansas to collect archaeological specimens for the Peabody Museum. By the time Curtiss completed his fifty-six days of Arkansas fieldwork, he had sent nearly 1,000 pottery vessels to Cambridge and had put the Peabody on the map as the repository of one of the world's finest collections of Mississippian artifacts. John House brings us a lively account of the work of this nineteenth-century fieldworker, the Native culture he explored, and the rich legacies left by both. The result is a vivid re-creation of the world of Indian peoples in the Mississippi River lowlands in the last centuries before European contact. The volume's focus is Curtiss's collection of charming and expressive effigy vessels: earthenware bowls and bottles that incorporate forms of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians, and humans, including the Peabody's famous red-and-white head vase.

By: John H. House
Foreword by: Ian W. Brown
Imprint: Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 205mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 432g
ISBN: 9780873654012
ISBN 10: 0873654013
Series: Peabody Museum Collections Series
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 22 January 2004
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John H. House is Station Archaeologist, Pine Bluff Research Station, and Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Reviews for Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss Collection

This fascinating volume introduces readers to the little-known fieldwork of Edwin Curtiss and provides a fresh view of the exciting prehistoric ceramic art of northeastern Arkansas. - Stephen Williams, Peabody Professor of North American Archaeology, Emeritus, Harvard University