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Notes on Little Pecan Island, Louisiana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Robert Wauchope
Robert Wauchope*
Affiliation:
Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University of Louisiana,, New Orleans, Louisiana
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On May 25, 1946 Mrs. Wauchope and I were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Vincent, Jr., of Lake Charles, Louisiana, on a picnic to Little Pecan Island in southwest Louisiana. During the day, we made a small excavation to sample a ridge which had previously yielded some human bones and fragments of pottery.

About five miles of marsh separate Little Pecan Island from Grand Chenier Ridge, not far from the town of Grand Chenier (Fig. 54). The waters of Little Pecan Lake wash its north and east shores. The island is about three miles long and is nowhere over 500 yards in width.

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American Antiquity , Volume 12 , Issue 3Part1 , January 1947 , pp. 186 - 188
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1947

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