Volume 68, Number 2, April 2021
On the Cover: The cover photograph shows a remarkable pipe uncovered in Craig Mound at the Spiro site in Le Flore County, Oklahoma. This is a depiction of the Earthmother, and she is holding an ear of corn in one hand. Oddly, this pipe was made to be smoked from the side rather than the rear. She stands 9 7/8” in height and is made from fine-grained sandstone. This pipe was originally placed in the center of the floor of what is today known as the Great Mortuary. Today, it is part of the collection of the Museum of the American Indian, and it is featured in the new exhibit, “Spiro and the Art of the Mississippian World”, which is currently at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City until May 9. The exhibition travels in the future to the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama.
Photograph by Steven R. Cooper
Table of Contents
| Title | Author | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Message from your Editor | 75 | |
| Obituaries – William McLemore, Robert McMahan | 76 | |
| Uncovering a Massive Blade from Northeast Kansas | Michelle R. Oehm | 76 |
| A Middle Cumberland Region Tablet | Dr. Sandy B. Carter | 79 |
| A Michigan Paleo Point Analysis | Nils Nilsson | 84 |
| An Analysis of the Largest Old Copper Culture Complex Artifact | E.J. Neiburger | 87 |
| Perhaps Another Variety of Hardaway Points | V. Gary Henry | 91 |
| A Farm Just South of the Lilly Inn | Paul Herrick | 93 |
| Penniless and No Piggy-back Ride! | David Marlof | 95 |
| Treasures from the Buried Trash left at Nineteenth Century Frontier Forts | Peter G. Murphy and Alice J. Murphy | 97 |
| Wyoming Road Trip: Remembering George C. Frison (Nov. 11, 1924 – Sept. 7, 2020) | Steven L. Boles | 98 |
| A Michigan Gem | Oliver T. Skrivanie | 102 |
| Evidence for the Dalton Phase in Southern New England | Bill Moody | 103 |
| A Pair of Artifacts found by Tom | Duane Treest | 105 |
| Two Jasper Artifacts from Virginia | Wm Jack Hranicky | 106 |
| A Southern Barbed Axe – Ashe County, North Carolina ex. Edward W. Payne Collection | Ron Harris | 108 |
| Visualizing the Past | Don Moffett | 110 |
| The Text and the Trowel: When Historical Accounts Illumine Native American Archaeology | Scott Chandler | 112 |
| Two Poll-grooved Axes | Dr. David A. Easterla | 118 |
| The Wandering Stanfield | Rod Price | 119 |
| Bangles and Beads Worn by the North American Indians | King Ross | 120 |
| The King of Points of the North American Indians | Dr. Alfred D. Savage | 121 |
| The Kincaid Mounds Historic Site | Brian Butler and Sheila Richey KMSO | 122 |
| Obituaries – Gary Cuckler, David Huff | 123 |
