Abstract
The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH) has extensive collections of artifacts from ancestral Caddo sites in the Caddo area. This includes 19 ceramic vessels and one distinctive ceramic pipe from several sites in the upper Neches River basin in East Texas. The majority of these artifacts were originally collected by noted amateur archaeologist R. King Harris of Dallas, Texas, who sold his collection to the NMNH in 1980, while three of the vessels were originally in Bureau of American Ethnology holdings, and likely are from early archaeological investigations by Dr. J. E. Pearce of The University of Texas at Austin that were funded by the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE). Pearce began work in this part of the state under the auspices of the BAE, and that work “had led me to suppose that I should find this part of the State rich in archeological material of a high order.”
Highlights
The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH) has extensive collections of artifacts from ancestral Caddo sites in the Caddo area
In 1980, his collections and records were purchased by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
A number of the sites that Harris investigated and obtained collections from have not been reported or documented, and this includes the 19 ancestral Caddo ceramic vessels and one ceramic elbow pipe discussed from sites in Anderson, Cherokee, and Henderson counties in the upper Neches River basin
Summary
The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH) has extensive collections of artifacts from ancestral Caddo sites in the Caddo area. This includes 19 ceramic vessels and one distinctive ceramic pipe from several sites in the upper Neches River basin in East Texas (Figure 1). The majority of these artifacts were originally collected by noted amateur archaeologist R. E. Pearce (1920) of The University of Texas at Austin that were funded by the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE). Pearce (1932:51) began work in this part of the state under the auspices of the %$(DQGWKDWZRUN ́KDGOHGPHWRVXSSRVHWKDW,VKRXOGÀQGWKLVSDUWRIWKH6WDWHULFKLQDUFKHRORJLFDO material of a high order.”
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