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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Jacket is heavily rubbed and tattered, boards have a slight warp, binding sound, internally clean. Illustrated exhibition catalog devoted to the prehistoric ceramic traditions of Arkansas, with particular attention to Mississippian, Caddo and Quapaw pottery.The volume presents prehistoric ceramic vessels as both archaeological objects and works of art, with extensive photographic documentation of effigy vessels and other forms. A specialist archaeological-books dealer describes the book as containing 88 pages, 10 pages of drawings and 138 photographs, including 60 in color.The publication has remained a reference in Southeastern archaeology and Native American ceramic studies. Individual objects illustrated in the catalog have subsequently entered major institutional collections; for example, the Detroit Institute of Arts cites Legacy in Clay, page 43, no. 32, in the published history of its Mississippian Head Effigy Vessel.…