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Native American Art and Culture

College of Visual Arts

Dr. Sue Short

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Moundbuilders and Natchez

    Map of Region

    Archaic period bannerstone

 

Adena Culture:

Burial Mound diagram

Effigy Pipe

 

Hopewell Culture:

Hopewell Mounds		Hopewell Mound creation
Great Serpent Mound	Great Serpent Map	Great Serpent Mound
Beaver Effigy Pipe	Falcon Effigy Pipe	Copper Falcon
Mica Bird Talon	Mica Hand	Mica Serpent

Mississippian Culture

Monk's Mound, Cahokia	Cahokia Illustration	Cahokia Central Plaza
"Big Boy" Pipe	Lamar "Weeping Eye" Mask	"Weeping Eye" Figure
Seed Jar	Skull Pot	Shell Gorget
Mound	House	Charnel House

 

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Image sources:

Berlo, Janet C. and Ruth B. Phillips.  Native North American Art.  Oxford, UK:  Oxford U.P., 1998.

Furst, Peter T. and Jill L. Furst.  North American Indian Art.   New York:  Rizzolli, 1982.

Johnson, Harmer.  Guide to the Arts of the Americas:  Pre-Columbian and American Indian Art.  New York: Rizzolli, 1992.

Penney, David W.  Native Arts of North America.  Verona:  Terrail, 1998.

Wade, Edwin L, Ed.  The Arts of the North American Indian:  Native Traditions in Evolution.  New York:  Hudson Hills Press, 1986.