Description
Book SynopsisLeading authorities provide the first state-of-the-art study of the history, meaning, and significance of Native American tattooing in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains.
Trade Review"This is a fascinating volume on a subject for which detailed investigation is long overdue." - Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction (Carol Diaz-Granados and Aaron Deter-Wolf)
- 1. Native American Tattooing in the Protohistoric Southeast (Antoinette B. Wallace)
- 2. Needle in a Haystack: Examining the Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Tattooing (Aaron Deter-Wolf)
- 3. Swift Creek Paddle Designs as Tattoos: Ethnographic Insights on Prehistoric Body Decoration and Material Culture (Benjamin A. Steere)
- 4. Tattoos, Totem Marks, and War Clubs: Projecting Power through Visual Symbolism in Northern Woodlands Culture (Lars Krutak)
- 5. The Art of Enchantment: Corporeal Marking and Tattooing Bundles of the Great Plains (Lars Krutak)
- 6. Identifying the Face of the Sacred: Tattooing the Images of Gods and Heroes in the Art of the Mississippian Period (F. Kent Reilly III)
- 7. Dhegihan Tattoos: Markings That Consecrate, Empower, and Designate Lineage (James R. Duncan)
- 8. Snaring Life from the Stars and the Sun: Mississippian Tattooing and the Enduring Cycle of Life and Death (David H. Dye)
- References
- Contributors
- Index
