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Power and the Sacred: Mound C and the Etowah Chiefdom
Adam King
Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South
The Etowah site, located in the northwestern corner of Georgia, still inspires the same sense of wonder and mystery that it invoked in Colonel Charles Whittlesey, a nineteenth-century geologist and amateur archaeologist.
We can, to some degree, generalize that carving a stone with symbols consecrated it and distinguished it from others. In some cases it rendered the stone otherworldly in that it could “grant favors” if properly supplicated. “The stone symbolized the steadfast power of Wa-Ko-da …
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Adam King
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Art Institute of Chicago
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© 2004 by The Art Institute of Chicago
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Art, Ancient American
Indians of North America
Etowah Indian Mound State Historic Site (Ga.)
Grave goods
Supernatural in art
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