| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 234 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
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Dan Josselyn memorial publication.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index. |
| Contents |
Mississippian stone sculpture -- Tennessee-Cumberland style Mississippian stone statuary -- The middle Tennessee heartland -- The north Georgia heartland -- The Tennessee periphery -- Ohio and Mississippi Valley statuary -- The statuary complex and ancestor veneration -- Appendix A. Tabular summaries of statue characteristics -- Appendix B. Two fakes and some odds and ends. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
When European explorers began their initial forays into southeastern North America in the 16th and 17th centuries they encountered what they called temples and shrines of native peoples, often decorated with idols in human form made of wood, pottery, or stone. The idols were fascinating to write about, but having no value to explorers searching for gold or land, there are no records of these idols being transported to the Old World, and mention of them seems to cease about the 1700s. However, with the settling of the fledgling United States in the 1800s, farming colonists began to unearth ston. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mississippian culture -- Tennessee River Valley.
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Mississippian culture. |
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Mississippian culture -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
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Figurines, Prehistoric -- Tennessee River Valley.
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Figurines, Prehistoric. |
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Figurines, Prehistoric -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
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Stone carving -- Tennessee River Valley.
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Stone carving. |
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Stone carving -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
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Tennessee River Valley -- Antiquities.
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Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.) -- Antiquities.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Miller, James V., 1939-2008.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Kevin E. Speaking with the ancestors. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008019424 |
| ISBN |
9780817382384 (electronic) |
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0817382380 (electronic) |
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0817315950 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817315955 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0817354654 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817354657 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817315955 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817354657 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780817315955 |
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