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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452326903321

Titolo

Ancient objects and sacred realms [[electronic resource] ] : interpretations of Mississippian iconography / / edited by F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber ; foreword by Vincas P. Steponaitis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007

ISBN

0-292-79543-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies

Altri autori (Persone)

ReillyF. Kent

GarberJames

Disciplina

976/.01

Soggetti

Mississippian culture

Mississippian art

Symbolism in art - Mississippi River Valley

Symbolism in art - Southern States

Supernatural in art - Mississippi River Valley

Supernatural in art - Southern States

Indians of North America - Southern States - Antiquities

Indians of North America - Mississippi River Valley - Antiquities

Electronic books.

Mississippi River Valley Antiquities

Southern States Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.