عنوان

Ancient objects and sacred realms

0292713479

9780292713

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انگلیسی‌

Ancient objects and sacred realms

edited by F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber ; foreword by Vincas P. Steponaitis

1st ed.

Austin

University of Texas Press,

2007

x, 299 p. :ill., map

The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies

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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.

Includes bibliographical references )p. ]263[-282( and index.

interpretations of Mississippian iconography

Mississippian culture

Mississippian art

Symbolism in art- Mississippi River Valley

Symbolism in art- Southern States

Supernatural in art- Mississippi River Valley

Supernatural in art- Southern States

Indians of North America- Southern States- Antiquities

Indians of North America- Mississippi River Valley- Antiquities

Mississippi River Valley- Antiquities

Southern States- Antiquities

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Reilly, F. Kent.

Garber, James.

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