James A. Brown
Brown, James A.
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The Cahokian Expression: Creating Court and Cult
James A. Brown
Description: Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South
Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South
In 1884 archaeologist John Rogan discovered two thin, beautifully embellished copper plates at the ancient town site of Etowah, near Cartersville, Georgia, while excavating one of its three major mounds (see figs. 1 and 11 in the essay by Adam King in this volume). The thinness of these plates, beaten from nuggets of natural copper, combined with the refined and detailed tooling of a naturalistic image of a costumed warrior, struck Cyrus Thomas of the Bureau of American Ethnology in Washington, …
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James A. Brown
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2004 by The Art Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.105-121
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00064.013
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14305
Chapter subject tags:Art, Ancient AmericanIndigenous peoples--North AmericaEarthworks (Archaeology)Mississippian cultureCahokia TribeIndigenous peoples--North America--Rites and ceremoniesRepoussé work, Ancient AmericanShell engraving, Ancient AmericanEffigies, Ancient American