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Ancient objects and sacred realms interpretations of Mississippian iconography /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Reilly, F. Kent, Garber, James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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