"Early Art of the Southeastern Indians" is a visual journey through
time, highlighting some of the most skillfully created art in
native North America. The remarkable objects described and pictured
here, many in full color, reveal the hands of master artists who
developed lapidary and weaving traditions, established centers for
production of shell and copper objects, and created the first
ceramics in North America.
Presenting artifacts originating in the Archaic through the
Mississippian periods--from thousands of years ago through A.D.
1600--Susan C. Power introduces us to an extraordinary assortment
of ceremonial and functional objects, including pipes, vessels,
figurines, and much more. Drawn from every corner of the
Southeast--from Louisiana to the Ohio River valley, from Florida to
Oklahoma--the pieces chronicle the emergence of new media and the
mastery of new techniques as they offer clues to their creators'
widening awareness of their physical and spiritual worlds.
The most complex works, writes Power, were linked to male (and
sometimes female) leaders. Wearing bold ensembles consisting of
symbolic colors, sacred media, and richly complex designs, the
leaders controlled large ceremonial centers that were noteworthy in
regional art history, such as Etowah, Georgia; Spiro, Oklahoma;
Cahokia, Illinois; and Moundville, Alabama. Many objects were used
locally; others circulated to distant locales.
Power comments on the widening of artists' subjects, starting
with animals and insects, moving to humans, then culminating in
supernatural combinations of both, and she discusses how a piece's
artistic "language" could function as a visual shorthand in local
style and expression, yet embody an iconography of regional
proportions. The remarkable achievements of these southeastern
artists delight the senses and engage the mind while giving a brief
glimpse into the rich, symbolic world of feathered serpents and
winged beings.
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