23PL2 - Deister Pottery



Rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection, Feature 2. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.104-1. Weight 162.6 grams. Wall thickness 6.0 to 6.5 mm. Grog and grit tempered.

Rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection, Feature 3. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.104-3. Weight 108.2 grams. Wall thickness ranges 6.7 to 9.0 mm. Grog and grit tempered.

Rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection, Feature 3. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.104-3. Weight 108.2 grams. Wall thickness ranges 6.7 to 9.0 mm. Grog and grit tempered.

Rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection, Feature 4. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.104-0. Weight 262.2 grams. Wall thickness ranges 5.7 to 8.4 mm. Grog and grit tempered.


Rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection, Feature 4. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.104-2. Weight 136.9 grams. Wall thickness ranges 5.3 to 5.9 mm. Grog and grit tempered.


Notched rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection and Mett's published drawing. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1050. Weight 29.3 grams. Wall thickness ranges 6.1 to 8.6 mm. Grog and grit tempered.


Notched rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection and Mett's published drawing. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1050. Weight 10.3 grams. Wall thickness ranges 5.5 to 7.0 mm. Grog tempered [no grit!].


Stamped bodysherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection and Mett's published drawing. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1050. Weight 22.3 grams. Wall thickness ranges 9.3 mm. Grog and sand tempered.


Stamped bodysherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection and Mett's published drawing. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1050. Weight 2.2 grams. Wall thickness ranges 9.3 mm. Grog and sand tempered.

Rocker decorated bodysherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1063. Weight 22.3 grams. Wall thickness ranges from 8.0 to 9.0 mm. Grog tempered.

Rocker decorated bodysherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1063. Weight 27.4 grams. Wall thickness ranges from 5.1 to 5.3 mm. Grog tempered.

Cross-hatched decorated bodysherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1064. Weight 27.3 grams. Wall thickness 7.5 mm. Grog tempered.

Cross-hatched decorated rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1056. Weight 31.6 grams. Wall thickness ranges 7.0 to 7.3 mm. Grog and grit tempered.

Cross-hatched decorated rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1058. Weight 30.5 grams. Wall thickness 8.5 mm. Grog tempered.

Rocker decorated bodysherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1060. Weight 63.2 grams. Wall thickness ranges 8.5 to 9.0 mm. Grit and Grog tempered.

Rocker decorated bodysherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1060. Weight 64.6 grams. Wall thickness ranges 8.1 to 9.2 mm. Grit and Grog tempered.

Rocker decorated bodysherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1060. Weight 17.7 grams. Wall thickness ranges 5.2 to 5.4 mm. Grit and Grog tempered.

Crosshatched decorated rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1060. Weight 20.9 grams. Wall thickness ranges 5.7 to 6.4 mm. Grit and Grog tempered.

Crosshatched decorated rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1054. Weight 38.7 grams. Wall thickness 7.5 mm. Grit and Grog tempered.

Stamped bodysherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1054. Weight 16.6 grams. Wall thickness 5.8 to 6.0 mm. Limestone tempered.

Rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1054. Weight 16.6 grams. Wall thickness 5.8 to 8.9 mm. No visible temper.

Rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1054. Weight 6.3 grams. Wall thickness 5.5 mm. Grog temper.

Stamped bodysherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection and Mett's drawing. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1051. Weight 10.0 grams. Wall thickness 5.6 mm. Grit and grog temper.

Crosshatched rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection and Mett's drawing. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1055. Weight 24.4 grams. Wall thickness 10.0 mm. Grit and grog temper.

Rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1047. Weight 24.4 grams. Wall thickness ranges from 4.0 to 7.0 mm.

Rimsherd from the J. Mett Shippee collection and Mett's drawing. St. Joseph Museum Registration number 99.27.1047. Weight 29.7 grams. Wall thickness ranges from 7.2 to 7.5 mm.

Middle Woodland Period rimsherd from the Kansas University excavation, Feature 11, Registration number A-8957. Weight 50.1 grams. Wall thickness 7 mm.

Middle Woodland Period bodysherd from the Kansas University excavation, Registration number A-9541x. Weight 57.1 grams. Wall thickness 7 mm.

Middle Woodland Period rimsherd from the Kansas University excavation. Registration number F 303-2. Weight 27.8 grams. Wall thickness 8 mm.

Middle Woodland Period rimsherd from the Kansas University excavation. Registration number A 8957. Weight 59.1 grams. Wall thickness 7 mm.

Middle Woodland Period rimsherd from the Summer 1999/Spring 2000 shelter rescue excavation. Bag 2-1-24. Weight 14.1 grams. Wall thickness ranages from 5.5 to 8 mm.







Illustration scanned from J. Mett Shippee's report "Archaeological Remains in the Area of Kansas City: The Woodland Period - Early, Middle, and Late" Missouri Archaeological Society Research Series 5.

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Webpage updated 4 July 2012