Copper Plate. Embossed
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1884
name: label: Collector
content: John P. Rogan
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
label: Site Name
content: Etowah
notes: label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 11, p. 157 in Townsend, Richard F., Robert V. Sharp, and Garrick Alan Bailey. 2004. Hero, hawk, and open hand: American Indian art of the ancient Midwest and South. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago. Figure caption identifies it as "Copper repousse plate depicting Birdman, one of the two so-called Rogan plates, ... 13th century [A.D.], copper, h. 27.9 cm." It is also noted on p. 156 that the Birdman motif is identified as Morning Star in the essay in the book "The Cahokian Expression: Creating Court and Cult" by James A. Brown, pp. 105-123. Brown identifies both A91113 and A91117 as heirloom copper repousse plates of Cahokian origin recovered as part of the regalia of an Etowah chief. Illus. Fig. 93, right, p. 94 in Krech, Shepard. 2009. Spirits of the air: birds & American Indians in the South. Athens: University of Georgia Press. Identified there as copperplate depicting being with human and bird attributes, repousse sheet copper, ca. AD 1300 - 1375. Representation of other-than-human being or important man who has appropriated avian attributes, this individual displays a forked motif at the corner of the mouth and wears symbols of office and power around the neck and body, or on the head, or holds them and trophies in their hands.
label: Notes
content: Reference: Follensbee, Billie J. A. and Katie McElfresh Bulford. "The Rogan Plates, Sex and Gender Representation, and the Bird-Human: A Case of Obscuring the Overt." In Dressing the part: power, dress, gender, and representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas, edited by Sarahh E. M. Scher and Billie J. A. Follensbee, 28-81. University Press of Florida, 2017.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Apr 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cartersville, Bartow County, Georgia, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 014255
label: USNM Number
content: A91113-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Plate