I found this Native American
pottery on display at the Quapaw Tribe's Casino Resort Hotel lobby near
Joplin, Missouri. I love
looking for items which depict effigies of animals from "prehistoric"
times. The archaeologists had dated these to 1400 - 1700 AD, from the Arkansas area of the Southeastern United States. I find these so interesting because I am a
Creationist. I believe that the earth is, as the Old Testament describes, only
6000-10,000 years old. I believe that man and dinosaurs co-existed, and the
pottery, art, and stories from ancient times include descriptions of actual
dinosaurs that they saw every day. Of course, modern science says that these are
simply “unknown monster effigies”, or “religious symbolic figures”, or “mythical
creatures.” But if they painted and
sculpted birds and animals they had contact with on a normal basis, why not
dinosaurs too? If you don't buy it,
fine. If you want to see for yourself,
drive up to Joplin and look. If
you want to see more examples, go to http://s8int.com/phile/dinolit84.html
and http://s8int.com/WordPress/2013/10/19/no-your-dinosaurs-who-knows-for-certain-what-dinosaurs-actually-looked-like-nobodyexcept-perhaps-the-eyewitnesses-responsible-for-the-ancient-dinosaur-art-at-the-peabody/
(item #8).
The card described this as a type of
“cat bowl effigy.”
I can see a type of cat depicted here, maybe a Lynx, which
is common to Southeastern United States area.
The card described this as an “eel or
lamprey effigy bowl”...I can see that.
Again, both are common in the Southeastern
United States area.
This was labeled on the card as "bird
effigy bowl".
“Little Rock Vicinity, Arkansas River Valley Keno trailed
bowl, 1500-1700 A.D.
Bird Effigy Bowl.”
Typically, swirls in Native American pottery represent water
or air. I would guess these indicate
that the animal shown lived in water or air.
I am not so sure the head and beak/snout look like a bird to
me.
The card reads "Arkansas River
Valley, Old Town Red effigy bowl, 1400-1700 AD." It did not say what it was an effigy of. Pig, human, cow? How about a juvenile or baby Triceratops? Notice small bony frill on back of head, and
three horn buds in the center of the face and over the “eyes.”
"Clay smoking pipe Arkansas
River Valley Prehistoric."
The effigy may be some type of bird,
maybe a chicken? But, what about an
Oviraptor or some other type of beaked dinosaur?
Oviraptor sitting on nest.
"Bowl with duck effigy
head."
“Northwest Arkansas Bowl with duck
effigy head. Late Mississippian 1400-1600 A.D.”
Maybe, but what kind of bill is
that? How about a duck-billed dinosaur
variety, hmmmm?
This is a Hypacrosaurus. I think it
resembles somewhat the “duck” head on the bowl.
Described as “cat monster”.
I see monster, but cat? Not so
much.
“Eastern Arkansas ‘Cat Monster’ bottle,
curly tail ca. 1200-1400 A.D.”
Look at that smile!
Water jug, curly tail, reptilian type head, long neck, toothy grin…
I think this plesiosaur is much closer possibility.
