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Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South

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ISBN-10: 0300106017

ISBN-13: 9780300106015

Edition: 2004

Authors: Richard F. Townsend

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Along the Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi rivers the archaeological remains of earthen pyramids, plazas and works of art testify to Native American civilizations that thrived there between 3000 BC and 1500 AD. This book presents new information on the art and cultures of these peoples.
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 9.00" wide x 12.00" long x 2.20" tall
Weight: 3.520
Language: English

Richard Townsend , a noted expert on pre-Columbian culture, is Curator of the Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago. He has conducted extensive research at Aztec sites.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Map of the Midwest and South
American landscapes, seen and unseen
Thoughts on the preservation of traditional culture : an interview with Timmy Thompson
The archaeology of aesthetics
Hopewell art in Hopewell places
The Newark earthworks : monumental geometry and astronomy at a Hopewellian pilgrimage center
Continuity and change in Mississippian civilization
The Cahokia site and its people
The Cahokian expression : creating court and cult
People of earth, people of sky : visualizing the sacred in Native American art of the Mississippian period
Marking stone, land, body, and spirit : rock art and Mississippian iconography
Power and the sacred : mound C and the Etowah Chiefdom
Moundville art in historical and social context
Thoughts on the preservation of traditional culture : an interview with Joyce and Turner Bear
Art, ritual, and chiefly warfare in the Mississippian world
World on a string : some cosmological components of the southeastern ceremonial complex
Prehistoric art of the Central Mississippi Valley
The ancient art of Caddo ceramics
Caddo art : a personal perspective
The bread dance : a Shawnee ceremony of thanks and renewal