Speaking with the ancestors
Subtitle: Mississippian stone statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland region
By: Kevin E. Smith and James V. Miller.
Contributors: Miller, James V., 1939-2008.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780817315955; 9780817354657; 9780817382384
Subjects: Mississippian culture -- Tennessee River Valley; Mississippian culture -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.); Figurines, Prehistoric -- Tennessee River Valley; Figurines, Prehistoric -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.); Stone carving -- Tennessee River Valley; Stone carving -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.); Tennessee River Valley -- Antiquities; Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.) -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mississippian stone sculpture; title: Tennessee-Cumberland style Mississippian stone statuary; title: The middle Tennessee heartland; title: The north Georgia heartland; title: The Tennessee periphery; title: Ohio and Mississippi Valley statuary; title: The statuary complex and ancestor veneration; title: Appendix A. Tabular summaries of statue characteristics; title: Appendix B. Two fakes and some odds and ends.