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



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Autore: Lenik Edward J. <1932-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Making pictures in stone : American Indian rock art of the Northeast / / Edward J. Lenik Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8077-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816110003321
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