This extensively illustrated volume provides the first complete
visual documentation and a pioneering iconographic analysis of
Picture Cave, an eastern Missouri cavern filled with Native
American pictographs that is one of the most important prehistoric
sites in North America. A millennia ago, Native Americans entered
the dark recesses of a cave in eastern Missouri and painted an
astonishing array of human, animal, and supernatural creatures on
its walls. Known as Picture Cave, it was a hallowed site for sacred
rituals and rites of passage, for explaining the multi-layered
cosmos, for vision quests, for communing with spirits in the "other
world," and for burying the dead. The number, variety, and
complexity of images make Picture Cave one of the most significant
prehistoric sites in North America, similar in importance to
Cahokia and Chaco Canyon. Indeed, scholars will be able to use it
to reconstruct much of the Native American symbolism of the early
Western Mississippian world. The Picture Cave Interdisciplinary
Project brought together specialists in American Indian art and
iconography, two artists, Osage Indian elders, a museum curator, a
folklorist, and an internationally renowned cave archaeologist to
produce the first complete documentation of the pictographs on the
cave walls and the first interpretations of their meanings and
significance. This extensively illustrated volume presents the
Project's findings, including an introduction to Picture Cave and
prehistoric cave art and technical analyses of pigments,
radiocarbon dating, spatial order, and archaeological remains.
Interpretations of the cave's imagery, from individual motifs to
complex panels; the responses of contemporary artists; and
interviews with Osage elders (descendants of the people who made
the art), describing what Picture Cave means to them today, are
also included. A visual glossary of all the images in Picture Cave
as well as panoramic views complete this pathfinding volume.
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