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

• Autore: Lenik Edward J. <1932->
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 709.01/13089973
• Soggetto topico: Algonquian Indians - Northeastern States - Antiquities; Petroglyphs - Northeastern States; Rock paintings - Northeastern States; Picture-writing - Northeastern States
• Soggetto geografico: Northeastern States Antiquities
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Making pictures in stone
• ISBN: 0-8173-8077-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816110003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II