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Mississippian culture heroes, ritual regalia, and sacred bundles / edited by David H. Dye.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mississippian culture.
- Medicine bundles.
- Indians of North America--Mississippi River Valley--Religion.
- Indians of North America.
- Antiquities.
- Religion.
- Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 376 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: An Archaeology of Mississippian Ritual Practices
- Mississippian Bundles, Other-Than-Human Beings, Regalia, and Social Institutions
- Trends in Mississippian Iconography and Ritual Studies
- Organization of the Volume: Themes and Topics
- References Cited
- Part I: Sacred Bundles
- Chapter 1: Dressing and Caring for the Spirits: The Role of Sacred Bundles in Siouan Society
- The Mandan
- The Dhegiha
- The Osage Native American Church
- More Comparisons
- Further Bundle Discussion
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 2: Ritual Languages of the Southeast: Sacred Bundles in the Memory Theaters of Mississippian Period Ritualism
- A Mississippian Symbolic Grammar
- Craig-Style Shell Gorgets
- Chapter 3: Nested Bundles within Etowah's Mound C
- Bundles
- Etowah's Mound C and the Late Wilbanks Mortuary Record
- Bundling in the Late Wilbanks Mortuary Sequence
- Mound C Bundling
- References Cited
- Chapter 4: "Cradleboard Figurines" or Icons of Sacred Bundles?
- The Three "Cradleboard Figurines"
- Cradleboards?
- The Context for Ritual Paraphernalia and Sacred Bundles
- References
- Chapter 5: Regalia and Sacred Bundles from Mound 1 at the Castalian Springs Mounds, Tennessee
- Mound 1 Description and Excavation Methods
- Mound 1 Graves and Other Features
- Regalia and Bundling in Mound 1
- Bundle Receptacles?
- Stone-Lined Bundle Receptacles?
- Grave 70-Wealth Regalia or Bundle?
- Notes
- Chapter 7: Earth Mother in the Middle Cumberland, Beneath World Powers, and a Portal to the Otherworld
- From Middle Cumberland Female Effigies to Spiro Shell Cups
- The Ogee Motif in Mississippian Art
- The Ogee Motif and Its Natural World Prototype
- From Replication to Icon
- From Icon to Portal
- Earth Mother across the Southeast
- Discussion and Conclusion
- Chapter 8: Medicine for the Dead: Shell Gorgets as Accompaniments for Rites of Passage
- Medicine, Mortuary Practices, and the Supernatural
- Who Is Buried with Gorgets?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Mississippian culture heroes, ritual regalia, and sacred bundles
- ISBN:
- 9781793650603
- 1793650608
- Publisher Number:
- 40030651796
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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