Speaking with the ancestors : Mississippian stone statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland region /

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Author / Creator:Smith, Kevin E.
Imprint:Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 234 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11258251
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Other authors / contributors:Miller, James V., 1939-2008.
ISBN:9780817382384
0817382380
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9780817315955
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9780817315955
9780817354657
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Smith, Kevin E. Speaking with the ancestors. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009
Standard no.:9780817315955