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Menard Bottle

Red and white painted bottle, shell-tempered pottery; Quapaw (Menard complex), 1400-1600; Menard-Hodges site (3AR4); Hodges 77-1 / 44-3

The reconstructed red and white painted Quapaw bottle in front of a book illustration of the same bottle.

Read more about collaboration between the Arkansas Archeological Survey and the Quapaw Nation at the Arkansas Post National Memorial and about how motifs were used on both pottery and rock art in the Arkansas River valley.

Text by Mary Beth Trubitt, photographs by Mary Beth Trubitt and Katie Leslie.

This project is supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional funding comes from the Arkansas Archeological Society Bill Jordan Public Education Fund.

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Project coordinator Mary Beth Trubitt, web design by Deborah Weddle, humanities scholars Tamara Francis and Judith Stewart-Abernathy. The artifacts on this website are part of the Joint Educational Consortium’s Hodges Collection of Native American Artifacts, curated at Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
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