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Perforated Elk Teeth: A Functional and Historical Analysis*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

A.V Kidder
A.V Kidder*
Affiliation:
State Historical Society of North Dakota Bismarck, N.D.
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In 1955 an archaeological field party from the State Historical Society of North Dakota recovered 2 perforated elk teeth from a village site, 32SI4, on the Missouri River in North Dakota. The excavations at this site were directed by Alan R. Woolworth and the writer. In an attempt to determine the significance of these specimens the writer searched the literature for data on their distribution in archaeological and ethnographic contexts and hints as to their function among socio-linguistic groups.

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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , April 1957, pp. 381 - 387
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1957

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Read at the 13th Plains Conference for Archaeology, Lincoln, Nebraska, November 25, 1955. The Central Plains Index in the Laboratory of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska was consulted as a guide to the ethnohistorical literature.

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