Associated Funerary Objects - Mix
Bag 1
Name/Title
Associated Funerary Objects - MixEntry/Object ID
1999.27.2195Description
Material from miscellaneous sites in Oklahoma. Outside of box reads: EUFAULA OKLA RESERVOIR Skull Sherds iron Felt Hat Glass Pottery Copper? Inside the box are multiple individual bags with notes, an iron horse shoe, metal fragments, glass bottle, a box, and an unidentified artifact. Multiple items are associated with various burials. Most seem non-Native American with a few positively identified as non Native American through notes on artifacts , but one AFO was identified as Native American Bag 1: near BROOKEN Eufaula Reservoir, Okla Bag contains three pottery sherds. Box 1: Labeled Beaver Creek, Okla. Panhandle 1939. Includes 53 various types of artifacts and faunal remains and a note. See image for note transcription. Pottery sherds - mostly cord marked decoration Shell Worked chert flakes Paint stone Faunal remains - teeth and bone fragments Broken hand axe (reads South side, Beaver Cr. West of Jct. of Coldwater 4 mi on artifact) 1 ash concretion Turtle shell fragments Bag 2: "Buttons and nails from coffin of this skull" Contains three buttons and rusted nails Bag 3: "Okla .34" Includes a note, one projectile point (labeled 2080 on the artifact), one polished stone (labeled Boysen, Wyo 48FR18 1950 on the artifact, a beaded bracelet, and two beads labeled Potawatomie small pox burial site, Spring 1970 Okla.) Note reads: The small lanceolate point was made by McCormick or Pritchett Colorado who struck off these flakes in his barn lot at Pritchett Colorado. He used many kinds of flint, chalcodean, chacedong, etc obsidian Bag 4: "Burial 2; Army button, nails, button, iron objects, hat felt Jan 1961 All from burial in a wooden coffin in unmarked cemetery by North Canadian River in Eufaula Reservoir, Okla. Blue beads from another burial about 30 ft to the southwest. Charlie Shewey later found about 15 more of the blue beads" Includes metal fragments, felt, a human molar, one white button, four blue beads, and a button that has a tag that reads: "Reservoir Okla. Jan 1961 Army Gen. Service 1850-1870. Convex gilt, 20. The Eagle. See the Emilio Col. book #140 pl2, p35" and on the back reads "From a wooden coffin and burial with felt hat on skull. Square nails in coffin. Family graveyard bull dozed by North Canadian River in Borrow area Eufaula" Bag 5: "May 1961; Eufaula Reservoir Burial Area" Contains belt buckles, broken glass, broken ceramics, a bullet casing, an animal tooth, nails, pottery sherds, button, and two misc. artifacts Bag 6: "Eufaula Reservoir; Old trading post? North of graves" Bag contains two human molars, definite faunal remains, and unidentifiable bone fragments - burnt. Artifacts include shell, broken glass, ceramics, bullet case, metal fragments, pottery sherds (including a separate bag of pottery sherds), decorated pottery sherds, charcoal, a button, tile, and misc. artifacts Bag 7: "May 1961; Eufaula Reservoir. Old village site on North Canadian. VILLAGE" Bag contains metal, ceramics, broken glass, leather, pottery sherdsCollection
Shippee Archaeological CollectionEthnography
Cultural Region
Lake
Great LakesCountry
United States of AmericaCulture/Tribe
Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Native American