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- Title
WEEDING OUT THE NODED.
- Authors
Lankford, George E.
- Abstract
Fortune Noded ceramics from the Mississippi Valley are distinctive and memorable, despite their small number, limited forms, and bounded distribution, but they are not unique. Recent studies of Southwestern shamanism have raised again the issue of noded pottery as a part of the ritual equipment for the use of Datura. This paper argues that the Mesoamerican and Southwestern noded ceramics were linked to the similar pottery of the Caddoan and Mississippian areas, that the noded décor creates efigies of the seedpods of Datura, and that the vessels thus stand as archeological markers for both the practice of Datura shamanism and contact from the Southwest into the eastern woodlands.
- Subjects
NORTH America; UNITED States; MISSISSIPPIAN pottery; CERAMICS; SOUTHWEST Indians (North American peoples) -- Antiquities; SHAMANISM; CADDOAN pottery; POTTERY; CADDOANS (North American peoples); DATURA; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Arkansas Archeologist, 2012, Vol 50, p50
- ISSN
0004-1718
- Publication type
Article