Description
Book SynopsisThis extensively illustrated volume provides the first complete visual documentation and a pioneering iconographic analysis of Picture Cave, an eastern Missouri cavern filled with Native American pictographs that is one of the most important prehistoric s
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Foreword (Patty Jo Watson)
Preface (Carol Diaz-Granados)
Acknowledgments
Landowners' Introductory Message
Part 1. Overview
Chapter 1. Introduction to Picture Cave and the Picture Cave Interdisciplinary Project (Carol Diaz-Granados)
Chapter 2. "Tracings in the Idleness of Art": Picture Cave in the Context of Southeast Prehistoric Cave Art (Jan F. Simek and Alan Cressler)
Chapter 3. The Geology and Ecology of Picture Cave (Philip W. Newell)
Part 2. Technical Work at Picture Cave
Chapter 4. Geochemical Analyses of Prehistoric Pigment Materials from Picture Cave (Sarah A. Blankenship)
Chapter 5. AMS Radiocarbon Dates for Charcoal from Three Pictographs and Their Associated Iconography (Carol Diaz-Granados, Marvin W. Rowe, Marian Hyman, James R. Duncan, and John R. Southon)
Chapter 6. Documenting Spatial Order in the Pictograph Panels of Picture Cave (Jan F. Simek, Nicholas P. Herrmann, Alan Cressler, and Sarah A. Blankenship)
Chapter 7. The Origins of Picture Cave: An Essay on the Artists/Priests Who Made the Drawings, as Interpreted from the Salvaged Cultural Materials (James R. Duncan)
Part 3. Interpretations
Chapter 8. Tradition and Horizons in Southeastern Representation: Lessons from Picture Cave (James A. Brown and Jon Muller)
Chapter 9. The Black Warrior Pictograph: Dating and Interpretation (James R. Duncan, Marvin W. Rowe, Carol Diaz-Granados, Karen L. Steelman, and Tom Guilderson)
Chapter 10. The Cave and the Beneath World Spirit: Mythic Dragons from the North American Past (F. Kent Reilly III)
Chapter 11. The Cave, Cahokia, and the Omaha Tribe (Richard F. Townsend)
Chapter 12. Mortal Combat, Sacred Narratives, and Symbolic Weaponry: Mississippian Culture Heroes in Picture Cave (David H. Dye)
Chapter 13. The Spider in the Cave (Kathryn Red Corn)
Chapter 14. Transmogrification, Healing, and Resurrection: Extraordinary Themes in Picture Cave (Carol Diaz-Granados and James R. Duncan )
Chapter 15. Color Symbolism and Preliminary Assessment of Styles at Picture Cave (Carol Diaz-Granados)
Chapter 16. Visions in Picture Cave (George E. Lankford)
Chapter 17. Identifying the Characters on the Walls of Picture Cave (James R. Duncan)
Part 4. Artistry and Reaction
Chapter 18. The First Man Was an Artist: Meditations on a Prehistoric Mississippian Cave (Pala Townsend)
Chapter 19. Layered Pictures, Layered Stories, Layered Lives (Anita Fields)
Part 5. Osage Interviews and Commentary
Chapter 20. Interviews in Picture Cave and Osage Commentary (William Samuel Fletcher, Osage Elder (Hominy, Oklahoma), Alma Jean Maker, Osage Elder (Pawhuska, Oklahoma), Charles Red Corn, Osage Elder (Norman, Oklahoma))
Chapter 21. The Future of Picture Cave (Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, F. Kent Reilly III, and Jan Simek)
Appendix: Illustrated Catalogue of Picture Cave Art
Alan Cressler and Jan F. Simek
References
List of Contributors
Index
