Bored driving along I40 toward Memphis...
The view from my hotel door in Oscola, Arkansas... The Delta.. Cotton & Corn.
Scanning using the turntable.
Me, working hard with my Mickey Mouse gloves on.
Importing the scans.
More scanning...
Scanning a large celt.
Box o' Lithics..
More action with the Mickey Mouse gloves on..
The front lawn of the Hampson Archaeological Museum State Park.
A close up on the park sign..
A vessel with Dr. Hampson's stationary attached.. marked as "Terra Cotta cup" and dated August 12, 1899.
More scanning..
A reconstructed Ogee bowl.
A bottle with four hands around the body..
A top view of the same bottle with hand motif.
Bird effigy jar.
Scanning the bird effigy jar.
The mighty Mississippi - mightily smelly.
San Souci Landing, City of Osceola.
Mississippi at the base of the boat ramp at San Souci Landing.
Shot gun shells...
Osceola courthouse.
Info about the courthouse.
I think there is a breakdown in budgeting allocations in Osceola.. the green lamppost sign reads"Welcome to Historic Osceola" while the building is nothing but an empty, broken window has been... I guess that would be historic..
A bowl.
Up close on the rim.
A bowl with four half-circle depressions along rim. It's interesteing because if one were set two pieces of wood in the depressions, it would form a cross in the center of the circle - a major symbol of centrality for Native Americans.
Scanning.
A conch shell effigy bowl.
Same conch shell effigy from the bottom.
A long since used drive in theater surrounding by cotton.
The delta looks like this.
Downtown Wilson, Arkansas.
Hmmm...
Parkin Archaeological State Park.
The moat at Parking.
An interesting juxtaposition..
The mound at Parkin.
St. Francis River at Parkin.
The village area at Parkin.
De Soto and group erecting the cross at "Casqui".. considered to be the site known as Parkin today.
Ogee bowl.
Ogee bowl top view.
Upper Nodena.. unearthed in 1936.
A bottle with four linear depressions.
Turkey effigy bowl.
A painted jar.
Interesting rim design..
A face on the side of a bottle.
A top view of a fish effigy bottle.
A painted bottle.
A bat or fox effigy jar.
Two cups!
Scanning..
Interesting..
More vessel markings..
Spiral design on a bottle.
Bottle.
Yes, We dig Arkansas!
Animal effigy.
Animal effigy up close.
Human?
Designs on the rim and body.
Just in case you have them.. no reptiles on Beale Street!
You can drink your biggest ass beers.. but not after 3AM.
Pentecostal Church along I40 in North Little Rock.
Toad Suck Park, I gotta go there sometime. Conway, Arkansas
Welcome back to NW Arkansas.. Liquid Chicken Mobilin'?
