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Perforated hoe blades, mussel shell; Caddo (historic), AD 1000 \u2013 1700; provenience unknown, Hodges 77-1\/X-235.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/hodges\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/04\/musselshell_700.jpg” alt=”%22%22″ title_text=”front and back views of a performated mussel shell hoe blade” align=”center” admin_label=”Image” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” custom_margin=”||||false|false” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”18px” header_3_text_color=”#555555″ header_3_font_size=”24px” custom_margin=”|0px||0px|false|true” custom_padding=”0px|25px|0px|25px|false|true” header_3_text_color_tablet=”#555555″ header_3_text_color_phone=”” header_3_text_color_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_3_font_size_tablet=”” header_3_font_size_phone=”20px” header_3_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
For further information about Native farming and farming tools, visit the \u201cNative Gardens of the Arkansas Archeological Survey<\/a>\u201d web page. To read about the historic button blank industry in Arkansas, see the Encyclopedia of Arkansas page<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/hodges\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/04\/shellhoe_700.jpg” alt=”Reproduction mussel shell hoe” title_text=”reproduction mussel shell hoe” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” custom_margin=”||||false|false” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ min_height=”92px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mussel Shell Tools Perforated hoe blades, mussel shell; Caddo (historic), AD 1000 \u2013 1700; provenience unknown, Hodges 77-1\/X-235.For further information about Native farming and farming tools, visit the \u201cNative Gardens of the Arkansas Archeological Survey\u201d web page. To read about the historic button blank industry in Arkansas, see the Encyclopedia of Arkansas page.Text by Andrew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1566,"parent":161,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1555","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/hodges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/hodges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/hodges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/hodges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/hodges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/hodges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/hodges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1555\/revisions\/1578"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/hodges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/hodges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/hodges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Text by Andrew Powell and Mary Beth Trubitt; reproduction hoe made by Jared Pebworth, photographs by Mary Beth Trubitt, Jared Pebworth, and Katie Leslie.<\/h4>\n