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Author Lenik, Edward J., 1932-

Title Making pictures in stone : American Indian rock art of the Northeast / Edward J. Lenik
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 251 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
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
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Subject Algonquian Indians -- Northeastern States -- Antiquities
Petroglyphs -- Northeastern States
Rock paintings -- Northeastern States
Picture-writing -- Northeastern States
ART -- History -- Prehistoric & Primitive.
Algonquian Indians -- Antiquities
Antiquities
Petroglyphs
Picture-writing
Rock paintings
Felsbild
Hällmålningar -- Förenta staterna -- Nordvästra staterna.
Algonkiner -- fornlämningar.
SUBJECT Northeastern States -- Antiquities
Subject Northeastern States
USA -- Nordoststaaten
Indianer.
Nordvästra staterna -- fornlämningar.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008014002
ISBN 9780817380779
0817380779