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Items from the Ocmulgee Old Fields, Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, GeorgiaThe village site at Ocmulgee old fields, Macon Georgia was a late 1600/early 1700s palisaded village associated with a British trading post (established in the 1690's from Charleston). It was from here that the attack on Mission San Luis de Talimali was launched. The site is maintained by the National Parks Service as a National Monument. It is difficult to visit the Lamar village, as it is in a swamp, but the Southern Cult era mounds, site of the village/trading post and interpretive center are worth the visit. You can find out more here: http://www.nps.gov/ocmu/ The Ocmulgee Old Fields have been inhabited by native people on and off for a very long time. This particular village was representative of the early interrelationship between European and Native. The trade goods are representative of the time period, and are not as varied as they would be later, during the era of the deerskin trade. The photos below are some of the items on display that are associated with European trade. The manager of the archives at the site has offered to let me into the stacks for additional research, if I can ever work out a time to do so.
Copper armbands, trade beads, drinking cup, and iron hoe from Muscogee village.
Trade knife, gun flint, and trade axe.
This is pre-contact, but interesting in that it is pottery marked with open-weave twined fabric. |
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