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Title Visualizing the sacred : cosmic visions, regionalism, and the art of the Mississippian world / edited by George E. Lankford, F. Kent Reilly III, and James F. Garber
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 357 pages) : illustrations, map
Series The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.
Contents General studies. Regional approaches to iconographic art / George E. Lankford -- The cosmology of the Osage : the Star People and their universe / James R. Duncan -- Regional studies: Middle Mississippi Valley. The regional culture signature of the Braden art style / James A. Brown -- Early manifestations of Mississippian iconography in middle Mississippi Valley rock-art / Carol Diaz-Granados -- Regional studies: Lower Mississippi Valley. Mississippian ceramic art in the lower Mississippi Valley : a thematic overview / David H. Dye -- The great serpent in the lower Mississippi Valley / F. Kent Reilly III -- Regional studies: Cumberland Valley. Iconography of the Thruston Tablet / Vincas P. Steponaitis [and others] -- Woman in the patterned shawl : female effigy vessels and figurines from the Middle Cumberland River Basin / Robert V. Sharp, Vernon James Knight, Jr., and George E. Lankford -- Regional studies: Moundville. A redefinition of the Hemphill style in Mississippian art / Vernon James Knight, Jr., and Vincas P. Steponaitis -- The raptor on the path / George E. Lankford -- The swirl-cross and the center / George E. Lankford -- Regional studies: Etowah and Upper Tennessee Valley. Iconography of the Hightower region of eastern Tennessee and northern Georgia / Adam King -- Dancing in the otherworld : the human figural art of the Hightower style revisited / F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber -- Raptor imagery at Etowah : the raptor is the path to power / Adam King and F. Kent Reilly III
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Mississippian culture.
Mississippian art.
Indian cosmology -- History -- To 1500
Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- Religion
Visions -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1500
Regionalism -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1500
Temple Mound period.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Antiquities
Indian cosmology
Indians of North America -- Religion
Mississippian art
Mississippian culture
Regionalism
Visions
SUBJECT Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities
Middle West -- Antiquities
Southern States -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125634
East (U.S.) -- Antiquities
Subject Middle West
Mississippi River Valley
Southern States
East United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lankford, George E., 1938-
Reilly, F. Kent.
Garber, James.
ISBN 9780292784659
0292784651