Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber
  • Some cosmological motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex / George E. Lankford
  • The Petaloid motif : a celestial symbolic locative in the shell art of Spiro / F. Kent Reilly III
  • On the identity of the Birdman within Mississippian period art and iconography / James Brown
  • The Great Serpent in eastern North America / George E. Lankford
  • Identification of a moth/butterfly supernatural in Mississippian art / Vernon James Knight and Judith A. Franke
  • Ritual, medicine, and the war trophy iconographic theme in the Mississippian southeast / David H. Dye
  • The "Path of Souls" : some death imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex / George E. Lankford
  • Sequencing the Braden style within Mississippian period art and iconography / James Brown
  • Osage texts and Cahokia data / Alice Beck Kehoe.