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Author Helms, Mary W

Title The Curassow's crest : myths and symbols in the ceramics of ancient Panama / Mary W. Helms
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) : illustrations
Contents Animals and elites -- The jaws of the serpent -- The Curassow and the deer -- The iguana-boa -- Great mother/great father -- The ocean/the shore -- Y-elements and animals -- Making connections
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index
Notes English
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Subject Indian pottery -- Panama -- Coclé (Province) -- Themes, motives
Indian mythology -- Panama -- Coclé (Province)
Indians of Central America -- Panama -- Coclé (Province) -- Antiquities
HISTORY.
Antiquities
Indian mythology
Indian pottery -- Themes, motives
Indians of Central America -- Antiquities
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Latin America.
SUBJECT Conte Site (Panama) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004450
Coclé (Panama : Province) -- Antiquities
Subject Panama -- Coclé (Province)
Panama -- Conte Site
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99049585
ISBN 0813022649
9780813022642