Early Art Of The Southeastern Indians

Author : Susan C. Power
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820325015

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Early Art of the Southeastern Indians by Susan C. Power Pdf

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.

Author : Emma Lila Fundaburk,Mary Douglass Fundaburk Foreman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817310776

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Sun Circles and Human Hands by Emma Lila Fundaburk,Mary Douglass Fundaburk Foreman Pdf

From utilitarian arrowheads to beautiful stone effigy pipes to ornately-carved shell disks, the photographs and drawings in Sun Circles and Human Hands present the archaeological record of the art and native crafts of the prehistoric southeastern Indians, painstakingly compiled in the 1950s by two sisters who traveled the eastern United States interviewing archaeologists and collectors and visiting the major repositories. Although research over the last 50 years has disproven many of the early theories reported in the text—which were not the editors' theories but those of the archaeologists of the day—the excellent illustrations of objects no longer available for examination have more than validated the lasting worth of this popular book.

Author : Emma Lila Fundaburk
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817310783

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Southeastern Indians Life Portraits by Emma Lila Fundaburk Pdf

This pictorial classic is a valuable ethnological record of southeastern Indians that also showcases the work of early photographers and artists. A collection of over 350 photographs, paintings, drawings,and woodcuts, Life Portraits offers us an important visual representation of southeastern Indians—at work, at play, in rituals, and in death—when they first encountered Europeans. Studied by historians and archaeologists, as well as museum exhibit designers and costumers, these illustrations provide a wealth of information on native dress and jewelry, house construction, agricultural techniques, warfare, and other aspects of American Indian life. Among the tribes illustrated are Natchez, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole, Chitimacha, Timucua, Powhatan, Tuscarora, Caddo, Yuchi, and Shawnee. A special section of the book quotes historic narratives and comments on the life and work of the artists, lithographers, photographers, and engravers who made the originals. Included among these are Jacques le Moyne, John White, Theodore De Bry, Francis Parsons, Joshua Reynolds, John Trumball, George Catlin, John Mix Stanley, Thomas McKenney, and Samuel Waugh. Life Portraits has been a classic title in southeastern archaeology and a staple of bookstores and museum shops around the country since its original publication in 1958. Because the carefully identified illustrations were secured from a wide variety of sources, including the British Museum, the Charleston Museum, the New York Public Library, and the Oklahoma Historical Society, this volume represents the most comprehensiveand widely available record of Indian images. Designed for Americana collections, it will appeal to general readers as well as professional historians and archaeologists.

Author : Roy S. Dickens
Publisher : University of Tennessee Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870493884

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Of Sky and Earth by Roy S. Dickens Pdf

Author : Shirley Glubok
Publisher : Atheneum
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Indian art
ISBN : 0027364801

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The Art of the Southeastern Indians by Shirley Glubok Pdf

A survey of the art and history of the various Southeastern Indian tribes from 5000 B.C. to the present.

Author : George Clapp Vaillant
Publisher : New York: Cooper Square Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Eskimo art
ISBN : 0815404697

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Indian Arts in North America by George Clapp Vaillant Pdf

Originally published in 1939. Includes chapters on the social significance, nature of, social background and origins of Indian art. Also developments before and after white contact. Includes Eskimo art.

Author : Susan C. Power
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820327662

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Art of the Cherokee by Susan C. Power Pdf

"In addition to tracing the development of Cherokee art, Power reveals the wide range of geographical locales from which Cherokee art has originated. These places include the Cherokee's tribal homeland in the southeast, the tribe's areas of resettlement in the West, and abodes in the United States and beyond to which individuals subsequently moved. Intimately connected to the time and place of its creation, Cherokee art changed along with Cherokee social, political, and economic circumstances. The entry of European explorers into the Southeast, the Trail of Tears, the American Civil War, and the signing of treaties with the U.S. government are among the transforming events in Cherokee art history that Power discusses."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Emma Lila Fundaburk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Indian art
ISBN : UCSC:32106000548138

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Sun Circles and Human Hands by Emma Lila Fundaburk Pdf

From the Paleo-Indian through the Mississippi period.

Author : Christina Snyder
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674064232

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Slavery in Indian Country by Christina Snyder Pdf

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder's pathbreaking book takes a familiar setting for bondage, the American South, and places Native Americans at the center of her engrossing story. Indian warriors captured a wide range of enemies, including Africans, Europeans, and other Indians. Yet until the late eighteenth century, age and gender more than race affected the fate of captives. As economic and political crises mounted, however, Indians began to racialize slavery and target African Americans. Native people struggling to secure a separate space for themselves in America developed a shared language of race with white settlers. Although the Indians' captivity practices remained fluid long after their neighbors hardened racial lines, the Second Seminole War ultimately tore apart the inclusive communities that Native people had created through centuries of captivity. Snyder's rich and sweeping history of Indian slavery connects figures like Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe with little-known captives like Antonia Bonnelli, a white teenager from Spanish Florida, and David George, a black runaway from Virginia. Placing the experiences of these individuals within a complex system of captivity and Indians' relations with other peoples, Snyder demonstrates the profound role of Native American history in the American past.

Author : Joan Marie Johnson,Marjorie Julian Spruill,Valinda W. Littlefield
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820367958

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South Carolina Women by Joan Marie Johnson,Marjorie Julian Spruill,Valinda W. Littlefield Pdf

Author : Stephen Warren
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469611747

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The Worlds the Shawnees Made by Stephen Warren Pdf

In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier." Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnees ranged over the eastern half of North America and used their knowledge to foster notions of pan-Indian identity that shaped relations between Native Americans and settlers in the revolutionary era and beyond. Warren's deft analysis makes clear that Shawnees were not anomalous among Native peoples east of the Mississippi. Through migration, they and their neighbors adapted to disease, warfare, and dislocation by interacting with colonizers as slavers, mercenaries, guides, and traders. These adaptations enabled them to preserve their cultural identities and resist coalescence without forsaking their linguistic and religious traditions.

Author : Edmond A. Boudreaux III,Maureen Meyers,Jay K. Johnson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683401360

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Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States by Edmond A. Boudreaux III,Maureen Meyers,Jay K. Johnson Pdf

The years AD 1500–1700 were a time of dramatic change for the indigenous inhabitants of southeastern North America, yet Native histories during this era have been difficult to reconstruct due to a scarcity of written records before the eighteenth century. Using archaeology to enhance our knowledge of the period, Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States presents new research on the ways Native societies responded to early contact with Europeans. Featuring sites from Kentucky to Mississippi to Florida, these case studies investigate how indigenous groups were affected by the expeditions of explorers such as Hernando de Soto, Pánfilo de Narváez, and Juan Pardo. Contributors re-create the social geography of the Southeast during this time, trace the ways Native institutions changed as a result of colonial encounters, and emphasize the agency of indigenous populations in situations of contact. They demonstrate the importance of understanding the economic, political, and social variability that existed between Native and European groups. Bridging the gap between historical records and material artifacts, this volume answers many questions and opens up further avenues for exploring these transformative centuries, pushing the field of early contact studies in new theoretical and methodological directions. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Indian art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037478877

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Of Sky and Earth by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pierre-Yves Manguin,A. Mani,Geoff Wade
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814345101

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Early Interactions Between South and Southeast Asia by Pierre-Yves Manguin,A. Mani,Geoff Wade Pdf

This book takes stock of the results of some two decades of intensive archaeological research carried out on both sides of the Bay of Bengal, in combination with renewed approaches to textual sources and to art history. To improve our understanding of the trans-cultural process commonly referred to as Indianisation, it brings together specialists of both India and Southeast Asia, in a fertile inter-disciplinary confrontation. Most of the essays reappraise the millennium-long historiographic no-man's land during which exchanges between the two shores of the Bay of Bengal led, among other processes, to the Indianisation of those parts of the region that straddled the main routes of exchange. Some essays follow up these processes into better known "classical" times or even into modern times, showing that the localisation process of Indian themes has long remained at work, allowing local societies to produce their own social space and express their own ethos.

Author : Elizabeth Anne Bollwerk,Shannon Tushingham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319235523

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Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes, Tobacco and other Smoke Plants in the Ancient Americas by Elizabeth Anne Bollwerk,Shannon Tushingham Pdf

This volume presents the most recent archaeological, historical, and ethnographic research that challenges simplistic perceptions of Native smoking and explores a wide variety of questions regarding smoking plants and pipe forms from throughout North America and parts of South America. By broadening research questions, utilizing new analytical methods, and applying interdisciplinary interpretative frameworks, this volume offers new insights into a diverse array of perspectives on smoke plants and pipes.