Completely Intact Lenape Clay Vessel

NJrocks

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Feb 11, 2019
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Hello. This is my first post to this forum. Nice to meet you all.

I found a completely intact Lenape pottery vessel. I scouted an undeveloped wooded lot nearby and determined where the brook flowed before it was redirected to accomodate the housing development. After finding a dipped path that I determined to be part of the dried riverbed, I brushed the layers of leaves off the surface and this neatly popped out of the soil into my lap. I have been uncovering Eastern Woodland artifacts for years and I must say this is the best pottery find I have found. Completely intact! I determine it to be middle Woodland period. I live in Central NJ where the Unami speaking Lenape people lived. Their pottery style is similar to that of the geographically adjoining Iroquoian, Munsee, and Susquehannock peoples.

Notice the corded line work, shaping of the vessel, the lip at the mouth of the vessel, and also the simple human face design at the bottom of the inside of the vessel.

.75" tall, 6.5" around
 

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lairmo

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She is a beauty!!! Awesome find!
 

joshuaream

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Really nice find, congrats.


Awesome discovery, congrats! This may be a stupid question, but did the NA Natives make and use oil/fat lamps? That's what it looks like to me but it's due to familiarity with ancient European and Near Eastern pottery and ignorance of Native American pieces. I know the Inuit carved oil/blubber lamps and stoves but don't know much besides that.

It looks like an oil lamp.

I haven't seen Native American oil lamps from the Mid-Atlantic area, but I have seen some from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick that have that pinched rim and raised bottom. I can't really imagine it being anything other than a lamp.
 

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