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Jesuit rings from Rock Island, Wisconsin

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Excavations on Rock Island, an island in Lake Michigan, have recovered a group of Jesuit rings that pertain to Potawatomi and, probably, Ottawa villages there. The rings show certain style shifts that add to Cleland’s proposed sequence changes and provide a well-dated ring profile for the western Great Lakes in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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  1. University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, Menasha, Wisconsin, USA

    Carol I. Mason

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Mason, C.I. Jesuit rings from Rock Island, Wisconsin. Hist Arch 10, 113–120 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03374004

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