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Speaking with the Ancestors - Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region (Paperback)
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Speaking with the Ancestors - Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region (Paperback)
Series: Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
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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 stone images in human form from land formerly inhabited
by the native peoples. With little access to the records of the
16th and 17th centuries, debate and speculation abounded by the
public and scholars alike concerning their origin and
meaning.During the last twenty years the authors have researched
over 88 possible examples of southeastern Mississippian stone
statuary, dating as far back as 1,000 years ago, and discovered
along the river valleys of the interior Southeast. Independently
and in conjunction, they have measured, analyzed, photographed, and
traced the known history of the 42 that appear in this volume.
Compiling the data from both early documents and public and private
collections, the authors remind us that the statuary should not be
viewed in isolation, but rather as regional expressions of a much
broader body of art, ritual, and belief.
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