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Sun circles and human hands : the southeastern Indians art and industries / edited by Emma Lila Fundaburk, Mary Douglass Fundaburk Foreman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fundaburk, Emma Lila, 1922-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian art--Southern States.
- Indian art.
- Indians of North America--Material culture--Southern States.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities.
- Southern States--Antiquities.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From utilitarian arrowheads to beautiful stone effigy pipes to ornately-carved shell disks, the photographs and drawings in Sun Circles and Human Hands present the archaeological record of the art and native crafts of the prehistoric southeastern Indians, painstakingly compiled in the 1950's by two sisters who traveled the eastern United States interviewing archaeologists and collectors and visiting the major repositories. Although research over the last 50 years has disproven many of the early theories reported in the text-which were not the editors' theories but those of the archaeologists of
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Chapter 1 FOUR CULTURES; Chapter 2 NATIVE TRADE; Chapter 3 CEREMONIAL COMPLEX; Chapter 4 SYMBOLISM; Chapter 5 KEY MARCO; Chapter 6 STONE AND COPPER; Chapter 7 POTTERY; Chapter 8 WOOD; Chapter 9 ANIMAL PRODUCTS
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1957.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8368-9
- OCLC:
- 680619850
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