Old Woman Effigy Bottle (Upper Nodena)

This is a Bell Plain kneeling female hunchback effigy from Upper Nodena. The hunchback condition is plainly visible. Similar vessels occur regularly, though not commonly, at Late Mississippian sites throughout the Central Mississippi Valley (cf. Phillips et al. 1951:162-165). The Hampson Museum Collection represents one of the world's most extraordinary collections of American Indian artistic expression as well as a major source of data on the lives and history of late pre-Columbian peoples of the Mississippi River Valley. The collections at the museum are the result of extensive excavations of the Nodena Site as well as excavations at other sites in the region by Dr James K. Hampson, as well as work by others including the University of Alabama and the University of Arkansas. The Virtual Hampson Museum was completed by CAST in 2010. The museum is the first of its kind to make such high resolution data available and was the subject of a UA Research Frontiers article in April 2010. In 2011 the museum has begun to receive substantial scholarly recognition. Below are a list of articles that reference the Virtual Hampson Museum. For further reading about The Virtual Hampson Museum and to explore more models in their archive, visit this link - http://hampson.cast.uark.edu/about.htm本件藏品为上诺德纳（Upper Nodena）遗址出土的贝尔平原（Bell Plain）风格跪姿女性驼背俑，其驼背特征清晰可见。此类造型的器物虽不常见，但在密西西比河谷中部的晚期密西西比文化（Late Mississippian）遗址中时有发现（参见Phillips等人1951年著作第162-165页）。汉普森博物馆藏品集（Hampson Museum Collection）是全球最杰出的美洲原住民艺术表达藏品之一，同时也是研究密西西比河流域前哥伦布时期（pre-Columbian）晚期原住民生活与历史的核心数据来源。该馆藏品源自詹姆斯·K·汉普森博士（Dr James K. Hampson）对诺德纳遗址及该区域其他遗址的大规模考古发掘，同时也收录了阿拉巴马大学（University of Alabama）与阿肯色大学（University of Arkansas）等机构的考古工作成果。虚拟汉普森博物馆（Virtual Hampson Museum）由CAST于2010年完成搭建，是全球首个公开此类高分辨率数据的同类项目，并于2010年4月成为《阿肯色大学研究前沿》（UA Research Frontiers）专题报道的对象。2011年起，该博物馆开始获得学界的广泛认可。以下为提及虚拟汉普森博物馆的相关学术文章列表。若欲进一步了解虚拟汉普森博物馆并浏览其档案中的更多模型，请访问以下链接：http://hampson.cast.uark.edu/about.htm