Recently added articles from Plains Anthropologist:
Some Wichita Recollections: Aspects of Culture Reflected in Language
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Wichita language belongs to the Caddoan linguistic family. In the late 1960s, I was privileged to study it with the help of Mrs. Bertha Provost. Among the texts collected as part of that effort is one in which Mrs. Provost and Mr. Houston Miller describe aspects of their traditional culture ...
Wichita Inspirations: Virgil R. Swift
Nov 01, 2008; ... Born in Lawton, Oklahoma in 1947, Virgil Swift grew up in his grandparents' home along Sugar Creek, north of Anadarko, Oklahoma. He traces descent to the Tawakoni and Waco of the Wichita peoples and direct ancestry to the re- nowned Wichita leader Tawakoni Jim. Virgil at- tended Anadarko public ...
Mapping an Eighteenth-Century Wichita Village Site
Nov 01, 2008; ... Originally located in a Cross Timbers/short grass prairie ecotone on the Brazos River in central Texas, the Stone site (41ML38), the archaeological site of the late eighteenth-century Wichita (Tawakoni) village of Quiscat's band, was investigated by Baylor University between 1999 and 2002. A 10 ...
Bison and Box Turtles: Faunal Remains from The Lower Walnut Settlement
Nov 01, 2008; ... This study examines a sample of animal bone recovered from features at the Lower Walnut settlement on the Walnut and Arkansas River drainage. Bison and box turtles make up the largest proportion of identified specimens, followed by deer, canids, fur bearing mammals, a variety of birds, small ...
THE LOWER WALNUT SETTLEMENT AND ITS CERAMICS
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Lower Walnut Settlement is a loose cluster of sites located in the lower Walnut River valley of south-central Kansas. The sites are dominated by late precontact deposits, dating from ca A.D. 1350 to 1750, though some sites do have earlier components. This paper reviews the history of ...