Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms : : Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography / / ed. by F. Kent Reilly, James F. Garber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, James,; Dye, David H.,; Franke, Judith A.,; Garber, James F.,; Kehoe, Alice Beck,; Knight, Vernon James,; Lankford, George E.,; Reilly Iii, F. Kent,; Steponaitis, Vincas P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Garber, James F.,; Reilly, F. Kent,
• TeilnehmendeR: Steponaitis, Vincas P.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood, and incised...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Some Cosmological Motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
• 3. The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro
• 4. On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography
• 5. The Great Serpent in Eastern North America
• 6. Identification of a Moth/Butterfly Supernatural in Mississippian Art
• 7. Ritual, Medicine, and the War Trophy Iconographic Theme in the Mississippian Southeast
• 8. The ‘‘Path of Souls’’: Some Death Imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
• 9. Sequencing the Braden Style within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography
• 10. Osage Texts and Cahokia Data
• References
• Index