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A major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and Southeastern United States.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction (F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber)
  • 2. Some Cosmological Motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford)
  • 3. The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro (F. Kent Reilly III)
  • 4. On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown)
  • 5. The Great Serpent in Eastern North America (George E. Lankford)
  • 6. Identification of a Moth/Butterfly Supernatural in Mississippian Art (Vernon James Knight and Judith A. Franke)
  • 7. Ritual, Medicine, and the War Trophy Iconographic Theme in the Mississippian Southeast (David H. Dye)
  • 8. The "Path of Souls": Some Death Imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford)
  • 9. Sequencing the Braden Style within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown)
  • 10. Osage Texts and Cahokia Data (Alice Beck Kehoe)
  • References
  • Index

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    A Paperback / softback by F. Kent Reilly, James F. Garber, Vincas P. Steponaitis

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 11/01/2007
      ISBN13: 9780292721388, 978-0292721388
      ISBN10: 0292721382
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and Southeastern United States.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1. Introduction (F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber)
      • 2. Some Cosmological Motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford)
      • 3. The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro (F. Kent Reilly III)
      • 4. On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown)
      • 5. The Great Serpent in Eastern North America (George E. Lankford)
      • 6. Identification of a Moth/Butterfly Supernatural in Mississippian Art (Vernon James Knight and Judith A. Franke)
      • 7. Ritual, Medicine, and the War Trophy Iconographic Theme in the Mississippian Southeast (David H. Dye)
      • 8. The "Path of Souls": Some Death Imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford)
      • 9. Sequencing the Braden Style within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown)
      • 10. Osage Texts and Cahokia Data (Alice Beck Kehoe)
      • References
      • Index

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