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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816110003321

Autore

Lenik Edward J. <1932->

Titolo

Making pictures in stone : American Indian rock art of the Northeast / / Edward J. Lenik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8173-8077-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

709.01/13089973

Soggetti

Algonquian Indians - Northeastern States - Antiquities

Petroglyphs - Northeastern States

Rock paintings - Northeastern States

Picture-writing - Northeastern States

Northeastern 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. [225]-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Algonquian people in the northeast -- Ezra Stiles : pioneer rock art researcher in eighteenth-century New England -- Culturally altered trees -- Nonportable rock art sites -- Landscapes in myths and legends -- Portable rock art -- Pendants and gorgets -- Decorated tablets, pebbles, and cobbles -- Sculpted heads and effigy faces -- Decorated stone tools -- Nonutilitarian effigy stones -- Dreams, visions, and signs.

Sommario/riassunto

The Indians of northeastern North America are known to us primarily through reports and descriptions written by European explorers, clergy, and settlers, and through archaeological evidence. An additional invaluable source of information is the interpretation of rock art images and their relationship to native peoples for recording practical matters or information, as expressions of their legends and spiritual traditions, or as simple doodling or graffiti. The images in this book connect us directly to the Indian peoples of the Northeast, mainly Algonkian tribes inhabiting eastern Pen