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KNEELING PRISONER EFFIGY PIPE
1400-1600
Palquemine Mississippian culture
stone
3
3
5
12.2 x 17 x #.5 (4 /4 x 6 /s x 3 /sj
The Brooklyn Museum
The theme of the conquered warrior-chief is rep-
resented in this human effigy pipe. The figure's
dress indicates his status. He wears the warrior's
beaded hair forelock, which is swept to the right
side of the face. The hair is gathered into two
buns on top of the head, and a long braid trails
alongside the right shoulder in a manner remi-
niscent of the hair dressing of the figure on the
Big-Boy pipe (cat. 440). Many strands of beads
wrap the arms and legs, presumably marking
this person as a warrior of high status, possibly
a chief. This pipe is thought to have come from
the Emerald site near Natchez. J.A.B.

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DOG EFFIGY BOTTLE
1350-1550
Middle Mississippian culture
earthenware (Nodena red and white)
5
19.5 x 25.6 (j /s x 10)
The Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History
and Art, Tulsa

This vessel was found in southeastern Arkansas,
in the southern part of the area occupied by the
Middle Mississippian culture (Penney in Detroit
1985,209). J.A.B.

586 CIRCA 1492