Making pictures in stone
Subtitle: American Indian rock art of the Northeast
By: Edward J. Lenik.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780817316297; 9780817355098; 9780817380779
Subjects: Algonquian Indians -- Northeastern States -- Antiquities; Petroglyphs -- Northeastern States; Rock paintings -- Northeastern States; Picture-writing -- Northeastern States; Northeastern States -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Algonquian people in the northeast; title: Ezra Stiles : pioneer rock art researcher in eighteenth-century New England; title: Culturally altered trees; title: Nonportable rock art sites; title: Landscapes in myths and legends; title: Portable rock art; title: Pendants and gorgets; title: Decorated tablets, pebbles, and cobbles; title: Sculpted heads and effigy faces; title: Decorated stone tools; title: Nonutilitarian effigy stones; title: Dreams, visions, and signs.