Super Bowl

[Neanderthal]

When I asked everyone what they were doing this weekend, a lot of them said they were looking forward to seeing a Super bowl. I'm such a people-pleaser, so hopefully this will work.

It's a Duck (Hooded Merganser) effigy bowl with a small water turtle tail-rider. It's from the Mississippian time period and dates to around A.D. 1000 - A.D. 1500. It was found by Kenneth Davis in 1964 at the Neely's Ferry site in Cross County, Arkansas. Even though it's broken & glued, the condition is excellent.

 

[TerryMiller]

Cool. Now, tell us what an effigy bowl is used for, or how it is used.

 

[MacFromOK]

Fascinating piece. What's it made of?

 

[Neanderthal]

Effigy basically just means that it's in the likeness off. So, a opposum effigy will be created to look like a 'possum. Effigy vessels typically represented forms (zoomorphic and anthropomorphic) that were very important to their way of life. Ducks and turtles were a part of their diet and in some cultures had religious significance as well.

This was a cooking bowl. I doubt that it was used daily though, this would be more like fine China and only brought out on special occasions.

 

[Neanderthal]

Fascinating piece. What's it made of?

Clay and tempered with ground up freshwater mussel shell. Mica, grog (ground up old pottery), sand, vegetation, and even bone were sometimes used as tempering.

 

[MacFromOK]

Thanks. You have a great job btw, but I guess you already know that...

 

[Okie4570]

The coin toss was worth watching. 16 Metal of Honor Recipients, all older gentlemen. 94yo Marine Woody Williams flipped the coin. The man was a badass on Iwo Jima...................carried a flame thrower.

 

[SdoubleA]

The coin toss was worth watching. 16 Metal of Honor Recipients, all older gentlemen. 94yo Marine Woody Williams flipped the coin. The man was a badass on Iwo Jima...................carried a flame thrower.

Anyone that carried a flamethrower and lived to tell about it...was a badass.

 

[Okie4570]

Anyone that carried a flamethrower and lived to tell about it...was a badass.

Yes sir!

 

[Okie4570]

The coin toss was worth watching. 16 Metal of Honor Recipients, all older gentlemen. 94yo Marine Woody Williams flipped the coin. The man was a badass on Iwo Jima...................carried a flame thrower.

Sorry meant to add his website. www.woodywilliams.com