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Richard F. Townsend (Editor)

Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South

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Richard F. Townsend (Editor)

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00064.027

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14319

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Richard F. Townsend is Curator of the Department of African and Amerindian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in art history from Harvard University in 1975 and has taught at the University of Nebraska and the University of Texas in Austin. Dr. Townsend’s publications include The Aztecs (Thames and Hudson, 1992), and he was the editor of and a contributor to two other Art Institute exhibition catalogues, The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes (1992) and Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past (1998).

Garrick Bailey received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and is a professor of anthropology at the University of Tulsa. He has worked extensively with the Osage Indians and is the author of The Osage and the Invisible World (University of Oklahoma Press, 1995) and coauthor of Art of the Osage (Saint Louis Art Museum and University of Washington Press, 2004). In 2000, Dr. Bailey was named one of three academics to serve on the NAGPRA review committee by Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt.

Joyce Bear is Cultural Preservation Officer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. A well-known speaker, she was Director of Indian Education Programs of Wagoner Public Schools, Oklahoma, and is currently a consultant on NAGPRA issues with state and federal agencies, museums, and libraries. Ms. Bear was also a consultant for the 1999 exhibition Native Lands: Indians and Georgia at the Atlanta History Center.

Turner Bear received his degrees in education from Northeastern State University and the University of Oklahoma, and he served as the first president of the Oklahoma Indian Higher Education Scholarship Administrators Association, and as Higher Education Program Director of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He was an education consultant for Native Lands: Indians and Georgia, an exhibition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Archaeologist James A. Brown received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1965 and teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Brown has excavated at the Cahokia site, and he is especially known as an authority on style and meaning in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. Among his numerous publications is the monumental, two-volume work Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma (Peabody Museum Press, 1978 and 1984), coauthored with Philip Phillips, a landmark of Mississippian iconographic studies.

Carol Diaz-Granados received her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, where she continues as a Research Associate. Dr. Diaz-Granados has been a leader in the charting and interpretation of Native American petroglyphs and pictographs. Her principal study, The Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Missouri, coauthored with James R. Duncan (University of Alabama Press, 2000), is the foremost work in this field.

The recipient of a Ph.D. in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, David H. Dye is a professor at the University of Memphis. In addition to his work on warfare iconography and ritual, he is well known for his research in the ancient and early historic Southeast and has conducted major excavations in the central Mississippi valley. He coedited Towns and Temples along the Mississippi with Cheryl Anne Cox (University of Alabama Press, 1990).

Stacey Halfmoon is Assistant Native American Liaison, Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Installations and Environments). Ms. Halfmoon received her B.A. in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma in 1993. As a member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, she has served as a NAGPRA officer for cultural preservation projects.

Robert L. Hall is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Adjunct Curator Emeritus of Plains and Midwestern Archaeology and Ethnology at the Field Museum, Chicago. His special interests include the evolution and diffusion of religious practices in Pre-Columbian North America, archaeoastronomy, and the history of Indian-white relationships. He received a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1960 and is the author of An Archaeology of the Soul: North American Indian Belief and Ritual (University of Illinois Press, 1997).

Ruthe Blalock Jones is an educator and artist, and a member of the Delaware, Shawnee, and Peoria nations. She received her B.F.A. in painting from the University of Tulsa and a master’s degree from Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She is currently Associate Professor of Art and Director of the Art Department at Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Adam King is an archaeologist with the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program of the University of South Carolina. He received his doctorate in anthropology from Pennsylvania State University in 1996, and his most significant publication to date is entitled Etowah: The Political History of a Chiefdom Capital (University of Alabama Press, 2003). Dr. King has closely defined the occupational sequences at this extremely important Mississippian site and has pioneered the recognition of Etowah’s network of connections.

Vernon J. Knight, Jr., teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. The recipient of a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Dr. Knight is one of the two leading experts on Moundville in central Alabama. Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom, coedited with Vincas P. Steponaitis (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998), represents the latest and most complete summary and analysis of information about this major Mississippian site.

Folklorist George E. Lankford is one of the few such scholars who have developed a professional interest in the myths and legends of the Southeast. The author of Native American Legends (August House, 1987), he received his Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1975 and teaches at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. He has also written extensively on late prehistoric and early colonial Native American culture in the region, and has projected this information into an understanding of the Mississippian past.

Bradley T. Lepper is Curator of Archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus. He received his doctorate in anthropology from Ohio State University in 1986 and is the site archaeologist for the major Hopewellian ceremonial center at Newark, Ohio. He is well known for his advocacy of a “Hopewellian road” leading southwest from the Newark Earthworks toward other mound groupings at Chillicothe, Ohio, and he has written extensively on archaeology of the Midwest.

Curator David W. Penney, Chief Curator of the Detroit Institute of Arts, is one of the few historians of Native American art with training in the archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands. Dr. Penney received his degree form Columbia University, and he was the organizing curator of the 1985 exhibition Ancient Art of the American Woodland Indians, the first exhibition devoted entirely to the art and archaeology of the ancient Midwest and Southeast. He is a coauthor, with George C. Longfish, of Native American Art (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1994).

F. Kent Reilly III teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University in San Marcos. His Ph.D. in Latin American studies is from the University of Texas. In addition to his work on Olmec iconography, Dr. Reilly has a longstanding interest in Mississippian art and culture. He is a leading advocate of developing a new understanding of Mississippian cultural heritage through an analysis of architecture and art complemented by archaeological and ethnographic information.

Mark F. Seeman is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Kent State University in Ohio. A leader in the field of Ohio Hopewell archaeology, he completed his Ph.D. in anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Seeman’s recent work has focused on mapping lines of sight connecting major ceremonial precincts and processional ways to outlying mounds, lesser sites, and significant topographical features and astronomical events. He has also written about the smybolic articulation of the land in Hopewell times.

Vincas P. Steponaitis is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and Director of UNC’s Research Laboratories of Archaeology. He received his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1980. One of the two leading authorities on Moundville, he is coeditor with Vernon J. Knight, Jr., of Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998).

Timmy Thompson is Traditional Cultural Advisor in the Cultural Preservation Office of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. He has enjoyed a successful professional career in mechanical and engineering drafting. In addition, Mr. Thompson has long been a leader in the religious life of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, having filled such offices as Assistant Medicine Man, Second Chief of the Hickory Ceremonial Ground, and, since 1991, Medicine Man.

Chester P. Walker is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Texas at Austin. Highly knowledgeable in the archaeology of the middle Mississippi area, Mr. Walker has conducted excavations in several locations in Tennessee and Texas, often in connection with salvage projects, and has written the technical reports on these excavations. He received his master’s degree from the University of Memphis.

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