Ancient objects and sacred realms: interpretations of Mississippian iconography

Abstract

1. Introduction - F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber 2. Some Cosmological Motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex - George E. Lankford 3. The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro - F. Kent Reilly III 4. On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography - James Brown 5. The Great Serpent in Eastern North America - George E. Lankford 6. Identification of a Moth/Butterfly Supernatural in Mississippian Art - Vernon James Knight and Judith A. Franke 7. Ritual, Medicine, and the War Trophy Iconographic Theme in the Mississippian Southeast - David H. Dye 8. The Path of Souls: Some Death Imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex - George E. Lankford 9. Sequencing the Braden Style within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography - James Brown 10. Osage Texts and Cahokia Data - Alice Beck Kehoe

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