You Cannot Judge the Past by Today’s Standards
“Did you find any fingerprints?” Patrick asked as I climbed the steps of his stone front porch. I was returning the two Native American pots he had allowed me to borrow to photograph, sketch and really just hold. He must have known, while I studied the pots, I would also be looking for such impressions, evidence of the one who made these Late Woodlands vessels, perhaps 1,000 years old.
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