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Speaking with the ancestors : Mississippian stone statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland region / Kevin E. Smith and James V. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Kevin E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mississippian culture--Tennessee River Valley.
- Mississippian culture.
- Mississippian culture--Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.).
- Figurines, Prehistoric--Tennessee River Valley.
- Figurines, Prehistoric.
- Figurines, Prehistoric--Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.).
- Stone carving--Tennessee River Valley.
- Stone carving.
- Stone carving--Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.).
- Tennessee River Valley--Antiquities.
- Tennessee River Valley.
- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)--Antiquities.
- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When European explorers began their initial forays into southeastern North America in the 16th and 17th centuries they encountered what they called temples and shrines of native peoples, often decorated with idols in human form made of wood, pottery, or stone. The idols were fascinating to write about, but having no value to explorers searching for gold or land, there are no records of these idols being transported to the Old World, and mention of them seems to cease about the 1700's. However, with the settling of the fledgling United States in the 1800's, farming colonists began
- Contents:
- Mississippian stone sculpture
- Tennessee-Cumberland style Mississippian stone statuary
- The middle Tennessee heartland
- The north Georgia heartland
- The Tennessee periphery
- Ohio and Mississippi Valley statuary
- The statuary complex and ancestor veneration
- Appendix A. Tabular summaries of statue characteristics
- Appendix B. Two fakes and some odds and ends.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8238-0
- OCLC:
- 650060116
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