precolumbian

Updated: July 27, 2026

All are tripods, and are attached to ordinary forms of vessels in a way to suggest that they are superadded features probably rather recently acquired; at the same time legs were doubtless employed by the precolumbian peoples. This is known to be true of Mexico, and Central and South America.

William Henry Holmes - Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley: Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83,: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436