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Ancient objects and sacred realms

Additional authors: Reilly, F. Kent. | Garber, James. | ebrary, Inc.
Series: The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : University of Texas Press, (Austin :) Physical details: x, 299 p. : ill., map.
Subject(s): 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2007
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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