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Melon-shaped clay balls used by Poverty Point women for cooking in earth ovens. Very efficient heating elements, these balls were probably selected for foods requiring lengthy cooking.
Cylindrically groved clay objects were used as heating briquettes for earth ovens. Briquettes of this form loose heat much more rapidly than the melon-shaped examples shown above. Women may have used them in recipes that required little cooking.
mainly by differences in dress and ornaments, in the right to carry or exhibit certain socioreligious objects, in different styles of body painting or tattooing, in rules of etiquette and in language. The highest lineage among the Natchez
had exclusive rights to special ornaments, particularly those on which high values were placed either because of the rarity of the raw materials from which they were made, because of the difficulty of getting the raw materials or because of
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