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A piece of a mud dauber nest with twig impressions - likely evidence of insect infestation of Mississippian houses.
Freimuth, G. and W. La Berge 1976. Dating and Environmental Reconstruction from Prehistoric Mud-Dauber Nests: Some Possibilities. Plains Anthropologist 21(72):111-114. Fig. 3
Image courtesy of Plains Anthropologist.