1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. Some Cosmological Motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex 8
7. 3. The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro 39
8. 4. On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography 56
9. 5. The Great Serpent in Eastern North America 107
10. 6. Identification of a Moth/Butterfly Supernatural in Mississippian Art 136
11. 7. Ritual, Medicine, and the War Trophy Iconographic Theme in the Mississippian Southeast 152
12. 8. The ‘‘Path of Souls’’: Some Death Imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex 174
13. 9. Sequencing the Braden Style within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography 213
14. 10. Osage Texts and Cahokia Data 246
15. References 263
16. Index 283