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DELLINGER TAKES A STAND AN EMPHASIS ON COLLECTING THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS MUSEUM DELLINGER ON THE ROLE OF THE MUSEUM POT HUNTING (POTHUNTING) DELLINGER ON POT HUNTING MORE IMAGES OF DELLINGER
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Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville Pot Hunting (Pothunting)
Many families living along the Arkansas River around the Carden Bottoms area in the early 1900s were poor tenant farmers or sharecroppers. The collapse of cotton prices after 1920 drove many families into debt. A series of floods devastated this area during the 1920s, washing away crops and fields and exposing a number of Native American graves as well as pottery vessels placed with the dead. Local tenant farmers earned more money collecting and selling pottery than farming. Several peak periods of “pothunting” occurred through the 1920s and 1930s. Today, excavating human graves to remove their contents is illegal and unethical.
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