The large and important Missouri site of Utz has produced six iconographic rings. Reviewing the means of decoration and the decorations themselves may provide a clarification of dates proposed both from radiocarbon assays and from what historic documentation is available. The rings speak of several different points of contact of the Missouris with outside, presumably French, sources; if verifiable, they may serve as another, possibly independent, means of dating.
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