ISBN:
0292713479
,
0292721382
,
9780292713475
,
9780292721388
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 299 p
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. ed
Series Statement:
The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
DDC:
976.01
Keywords:
Mississippian culture
;
Mississippian art
;
Symbolism in art
;
Symbolism in art
;
Supernatural in art
;
Supernatural in art
;
Indians of North America Antiquities
;
Indians of North America Antiquities
;
Mississippi River Valley Antiquities
;
Southern States Antiquities
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Mississippikultur
;
Kunst
;
Ikonographie
;
Symbol
Description / 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-282) and index
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0662/2006022618-t.html
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