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Ancient objects and sacred realms : interpretations of Mississippian iconography / edited by F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber ; foreword by Vincas P. Steponaitis.
Penn Museum Library E99.M6815 A52 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
- The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mississippian culture.
- Mississippian art.
- Symbolism in art--Mississippi River Valley.
- Symbolism in art.
- Symbolism in art--Southern States.
- Supernatural in art--Mississippi River Valley.
- Supernatural in art.
- Supernatural in art--Southern States.
- Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Antiquities.
- Southern States.
- Indians of North America--Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities.
- Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Southern States--Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- x, 299 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0292713479
- 9780292713475
- OCLC:
- 70335213
- Online:
- Publisher description
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