Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 234 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication |
Contents |
Mississippian stone sculpture -- Tennessee-Cumberland style Mississippian stone statuary -- The middle Tennessee heartland -- The north Georgia heartland -- The Tennessee periphery -- Ohio and Mississippi Valley statuary -- The statuary complex and ancestor veneration -- Appendix A. Tabular summaries of statue characteristics -- Appendix B. Two fakes and some odds and ends |
Summary |
When European explorers began their initial forays into southeastern North America in the 16th and 17th centuries they encountered what they called temples and shrines of native peoples, often decorated with idols in human form made of wood, pottery, or stone. The idols were fascinating to write about, but having no value to explorers searching for gold or land, there are no records of these idols being transported to the Old World, and mention of them seems to cease about the 1700s. However, with the settling of the fledgling United States in the 1800s, farming colonists began to unearth ston |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Mississippian culture -- Tennessee River Valley
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Mississippian culture -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
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Figurines, Prehistoric -- Tennessee River Valley
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Figurines, Prehistoric -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
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Stone carving -- Tennessee River Valley
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Stone carving -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Antiquities
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Figurines, Prehistoric
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Mississippian culture
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Stone carving
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SUBJECT |
Tennessee River Valley -- Antiquities
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Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.) -- Antiquities
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United States -- Cumberland River Valley
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United States -- Tennessee River Valley
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Miller, James V., 1939-2008.
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ISBN |
9780817382384 |
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0817382380 |
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0817315950 |
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9780817315955 |
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0817354654 |
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9780817354657 |
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