Ancient objects and sacred realms : interpretations of Mississippian iconography / / edited by F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber ; foreword by Vincas P. Steponaitis.
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| Superior document: | The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.
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| Physical Description: | x, 299 p. :; ill., map. |
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Table of 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.