Ancient objects and sacred realms [electronic resource] : interpretations of Mississippian iconography / edited by F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber ; foreword by Vincas P. Steponaitis.
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TextSeries: Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studiesPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 299 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): - Mississippian culture
- Mississippian art
- Symbolism in art -- Mississippi River Valley
- Symbolism in art -- Southern States
- Supernatural in art -- Mississippi River Valley
- Supernatural in art -- Southern States
- Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Antiquities
- Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities
- Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities
- Southern States -- Antiquities
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- E99.M6815 A52 2007
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| Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-282) and index.
Some cosmological motifs in the southeastern ceremonial complex / George E. Lankford -- The Petaloid motif : a celestial symbolic locative in the shell art of spiro / F. Kent Reilly III -- On the identity of the birdman within Mississippian period art and iconography / James Brown -- The great serpent in eastern North America / George E. Lankford -- Identification of a moth/butterfly supernatural in Mississippian art / Vernon James Knight and Judith A. Franke -- Ritual, medicine, and the war trophy iconographic theme in the Mississippian southeast / David H. Dye -- The "path of souls" : some death imagery in the southeastern ceremonial complex / George E. Lankford -- Sequencing the braden style within Mississippian period art and iconography / James Brown -- Osage texts and Cahokia data / Alice Beck Kehoe.
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