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Drawing of intertwined horned serpents from a vessel known as the Centi pot, found at the Chucalissa site near Memphis

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Description: Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South
Art and ritual provided the symbolic and metaphorical means by which the people of the Mississippian world visualized their spiritual relationships with the supernatural. Mississippian art—or, more specifically, what I shall argue is the art of a Mississippian Art and Ceremonial Complex (MACC)—often displayed an encoded symbolic system that portrayed the locations and inhabitants of a perceived, yet unseen, reality. The MACC possessed a complex symbolic language with important political and …
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.125-137
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00064.014

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