| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
287 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color), color portraits ; 31 cm |
| Note |
Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279) and index. |
| Contents |
American landscapes, seen and unseen / Richard F. Townsend -- Thoughts on the preservation of traditional culture : an interview with Timmy Thompson / F. Kent Reilly III -- The archaeology of aesthetics / David W. Penney -- Hopewell art in Hopewell places / Mark F. Seeman -- The Newark Earthworks : monumental geometry and astronomy at a Hopewellian pilgrimage center / Bradley T. Lepper -- Continuity and change in Mississippian civilization / Garrick Bailey -- The Cahokia site and its people / Robert L. Hall -- The Cahokian expression : creating court and cult / James A. Brown -- People of earth, people of sky : visualizing the sacred in Native American art of the Mississippian period / F. Kent Reilly III -- Marking stone, land, body, and spirit : rock art and Mississippian iconography / Carol Diaz-Granados -- Power and the sacred : Mound C and the Etowah chiefdom / Adam King -- Moundville art in historical and social context / Vincas P. Steponaitis and Vernon J. Knight, Jr. -- Thoughts on the preservation of traditional culture : an interview with Joyce and Turner Bear / F. Kent Reilly III -- Art, ritual, and chiefly warfare in the Mississippian world / David H. Dye -- World on a string : some cosmological components of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex / George E. Lankford -- Prehistoric art of the Central Mississippi Valley / Chester P. Walker -- The ancient art of Caddo ceramics / Richard F. Townsend and Chester P. Walker -- Caddo art : a personal perspective / Stacey Halfmoon -- The Bread Dance : a Shawnee ceremony of thanks and renewal / Ruthe Blalock Jones. |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.
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Mississippian art -- Southern States -- Exhibitions.
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Indian art -- Southern States -- Exhibitions.
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Indian art -- Middle West -- Exhibitions.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.
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| Subject |
Mississippian art -- Middle West -- Exhibitions.
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Art Institute of Chicago -- Exhibitions.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous art -- Southern States -- Exhibitions.
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Indigenous art -- Middle West -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Townsend, Richard F.
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Sharp, Robert V. (Robert Vincent), 1950-
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Bailey, Garrick Alan.
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Art Institute of Chicago.
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| Added Title |
American Indian art of the ancient Midwest and South |
| ISBN |
0300106017 paper |
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0300104677 cloth |
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