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Title 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.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 299 p. : ill., map.
Series The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-282) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Reilly, F. Kent.
Garber, James.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0292713479 (alk. paper)
9780292713475 (alk. paper)

 
    
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