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Picture Cave : Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos / edited by Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, F. Kent Reilly III ; foreword by Patty Jo Watson ; photographs of Picture Cave by Alan Cressler.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Diaz-Granados, Carol, 1943- editor.
Duncan, James Richard, 1942- editor.
Reilly, F. Kent, III, 1945-2024, editor.
Series:
Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Picture-writing.
Picture Cave (Mo.).
Mississippian culture.
Mississippian art.
Indian cosmology.
Rock paintings--Missouri--Picture Cave.
Rock paintings.
Missouri--Picture Cave.
Picture-writing--Missouri--Picture Cave.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
Contents:
Introduction to Picture Cave and the Picture Cave Interdisciplinary Project / Carol Diaz-Granados
"Tracings in the idleness of art" : Picture Cave in the context of Southeast prehistoric cave art / Jan F. Simek and Alan Cressler
The geology and ecology of Picture Cave / Philip W. Newell
Geochemical analyses of prehistoric pigment materials from Picture Cave / Sarah A. Blankenship
AMS radiocarbon dates for charcoal from three pictographs and their associated iconography / Carol Diaz-Granados, Marvin W. Rowe, Marian Hyman, James R. Duncan, and John R. Southon
Documenting spatial order in the pictograph panels of Picture Cave / Jan F. Simek, Nicholas P. Herrmann, Alan Cressler, and Sarah A. Blankenship
The origins of Picture Cave : an essay on the artists/priests who made the drawings, as interpreted from the salvaged cultural materials / James R. Duncan
Tradition and horizons in southeastern representation : lessons from Picture Cave / James A. Brown and Jon Muller
The black warrior pictograph : dating and interpretation / James R. Duncan, Marvin W. Rowe, Carol Diaz-Granados, Karen L. Steelman, and Tom Guilderson
The cave and the beneath world spirit : mythic dragons from the North American past / F. Kent Reilly III
The cave, Cahokia, and the Omaha tribe / Richard F. Townsend
Mortal combat, sacred narratives, and symbolic weaponry : Mississippian culture heroes in Picture Cave / David H. Dye
The spider in the cave / Kathryn Red Corn
Transmogrification, healing, and resurrection : extraordinary themes in Picture Cave / Carol Diaz-Granados and James R. Duncan
Color symbolism and preliminary assessment of styles at Picture Cave / Carol Diaz-Granados
Visions in Picture Cave / George E. Lankford
Identifying the characters on the walls of Picture Cave / James R. Duncan
The first man was an artist : meditations on a prehistoric Mississippian cave / Pala Townsend
Layered pictures, layered stories, layered lives / Anita Fields
Interviews in Picture Cave and Osage commentary / William Samuel Fletcher, Osage Elder (Hominy, Oklahoma), Alma Jean Maker, Osage Elder (Pawhuska, Oklahoma), Charles Red Corn, Osage Elder (Norman, Oklahoma)
The future of Picture Cave / Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, F. Kent Reilly III, and Jan Simek
Appendix: Illustrated catalogue of Picture Cave art / Alan Cressler and Jan F. Simek.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index.
ISBN:
9780292761339
0292761333
OCLC:
886878564

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