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Description: Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South
The central Mississippi valley of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was a vast landscape of dissected alluvial hills, horseshoe-shaped swamps and backwaters, and massive meandering rivers and streams. In 1542 when the members of Hernando de Soto’s entrada crossed the Mississippi River, there was a complex cultural mosaic of chiefdoms ripe with political alliances and factions. The cultural landscape seems to have consisted of ceremonial centers with various types of mounds, densely …
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.219-229
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00064.021

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