Red-filmed Native pottery from French era deposits at 810 Royal. Courtesy of UNO Department of Anthropology and Sociology.


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Red-filmed Native pottery from French era deposits at 810 Royal.  Courtesy of UNO Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

Other materials from the same French Colonial era midden deposits –beads, French coins, smoking pipes, and so on—are also typical of the material culture of a fur trader in this era. Most noteworthy was a significant quantity of Native American pottery in the assemblages, with the diversity of ware types and decorations probably indicating the extensive trade networks someone like Langlois would have needed to maintain in his business.


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