84.87.1
Shard, Pottery
1800 Approximate
Pottery Shard. Material: pottery. Size: 1 3/4" W. x 1" L. Description: brown/black fragment; one side blackened with heat. Was attached to a collection card: "Museum of Waseca Chapter No. 565, A.A., Property of J.F. Murphy." Catalog description card (in script) reads: "Fragment of pottery found on North Shore of Clear Lake Waseca Co., Minn. Oct. 18th, 1885."
Dr. Schirmer of Minnesota State University, Mankato visited 2 July 2013 and determined that this is a Native American pottery shard from the middle Woodland period, 400AD.