Ancient objects and sacred realms : interpretations of Mississippian iconography / edited by F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber ; foreword by Vincas P. Steponaitis
Introduction / F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber -- Some cosmological motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex / George E. Lankford -- The Petaloid motif : a celestial symbolic locative in the shell art of Spiro / F. Kent Reilly III -- On the identity of the Birdman within Mississippian period art and iconography / James Brown -- The Great Serpent in eastern North America / George E. Lankford -- Identification of a moth/butterfly supernatural in Mississippian art / Vernon James Knight and Judith A. Franke -- Ritual, medicine, and the war trophy iconographic theme in the Mississippian southeast / David H. Dye -- The "Path of Souls" : some death imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex / George E. Lankford -- Sequencing the Braden style within Mississippian period art and iconography / James Brown -- Osage texts and Cahokia data / Alice Beck Kehoe
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index
