Description |
1 online resource (xix, 251 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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Contents |
Algonquian people in the northeast -- Ezra Stiles : pioneer rock art researcher in eighteenth-century New England -- Culturally altered trees -- Nonportable rock art sites -- Landscapes in myths and legends -- Portable rock art -- Pendants and gorgets -- Decorated tablets, pebbles, and cobbles -- Sculpted heads and effigy faces -- Decorated stone tools -- Nonutilitarian effigy stones -- Dreams, visions, and signs |
Summary |
The Indians of northeastern North America are known to us primarily through reports and descriptions written by European explorers, clergy, and settlers, and through archaeological evidence. An additional invaluable source of information is the interpretation of rock art images and their relationship to native peoples for recording practical matters or information, as expressions of their legends and spiritual traditions, or as simple doodling or graffiti. The images in this book connect us directly to the Indian peoples of the Northeast, mainly Algonkian tribes inhabiting eastern Pennsylvania |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) 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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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Algonquian Indians -- Northeastern States -- Antiquities
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Petroglyphs -- Northeastern States
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Rock paintings -- Northeastern States
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Picture-writing -- Northeastern States
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ART -- History -- Prehistoric & Primitive.
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Algonquian Indians -- Antiquities
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Antiquities
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Petroglyphs
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Picture-writing
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Rock paintings
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Felsbild
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Hällmålningar -- Förenta staterna -- Nordvästra staterna.
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Algonkiner -- fornlämningar.
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SUBJECT |
Northeastern States -- Antiquities
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Northeastern States
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USA -- Nordoststaaten
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Indianer.
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Nordvästra staterna -- fornlämningar.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2008014002 |
ISBN |
9780817380779 |
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0817380779 |
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