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Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms : Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian StudiesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292795433
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ancient Objects and Sacred RealmsLOC classification:
  • E99
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword (Vincas P. Steponaitis) -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction (F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber) -- 2. Some Cosmological Motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford) -- 3. The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro (F. Kent Reilly III) -- 4. On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown) -- 5. The Great Serpent in Eastern North America (George E. Lankford) -- 6. Identification of a Moth/Butterfly Supernatural in Mississippian Art (Vernon James Knight and Judith A. Franke) -- 7. Ritual, Medicine, and the War Trophy Iconographic Theme in the Mississippian Southeast (David H. Dye) -- 8. The ''Path of Souls'': Some Death Imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford) -- 9. Sequencing the Braden Style within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown) -- 10. Osage Texts and Cahokia Data (Alice Beck Kehoe) -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword (Vincas P. Steponaitis) -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction (F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber) -- 2. Some Cosmological Motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford) -- 3. The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro (F. Kent Reilly III) -- 4. On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown) -- 5. The Great Serpent in Eastern North America (George E. Lankford) -- 6. Identification of a Moth/Butterfly Supernatural in Mississippian Art (Vernon James Knight and Judith A. Franke) -- 7. Ritual, Medicine, and the War Trophy Iconographic Theme in the Mississippian Southeast (David H. Dye) -- 8. The ''Path of Souls'': Some Death Imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford) -- 9. Sequencing the Braden Style within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown) -- 10. Osage Texts and Cahokia Data (Alice Beck Kehoe) -- References -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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