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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.

Contributor(s): Reilly, F. Kent | Garber, James | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies: Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007Edition: 1st ed.Description: x, 299 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Mississippian culture | Mississippian art | Symbolism in art -- Mississippi River Valley | Symbolism in art -- Southern States | Supernatural | Supernatural. -- Antiquities | Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities | Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities | Southern States -- AntiquitiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 976/.01 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-282) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.