Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World

Index

index note: Italic page numbers refer to illustrations and tables. Alabama people, 31, 246, 247 Algonkian cosmology, 18, 63n.1, 244, 245 Anheuser site, Missouri, 81, 82 Anna site, 230, 231 anthropomorphs: Braden art style, 300– 301, 305, 306, 309; and ceramic art, 127–128; and engraved shell, 282–283, 282, 284, 290–291; and rock-art, 67, 79–80, 79 Averbuch site, Tennessee, 177–180, 178, 180, 195 axis mundi, 20, 25–26, 27, 31 Belle Meade site, Tennessee, 185, 195, 264–265, 264 Bennett style, 280, 281 Berry site, Missouri, 126–127, 126 bilobed arrow emblem: and Dhegiha Sioux cosmology, 54–55; and embossed copper, 286; Hemphill style, 169, 172, 214, 216–217, 216; Hightower style, 303, 303; and rock-art, 66, 67, 68, 72, 84, 85, 88, 89, 92, 94, 171; and Thruston Tablet, 168–169, 171 Birdman: and Braden art style, 38; and Cahokia, 73, 75, 314; and ceramic art, 128; and Dhegiha Sioux cosmology, 52, 53, 60, 61–62; and Etowah, 319, 320; Hightower style, 282, 286, 288, 290– 291, 292, 299, 315, 316; and Raptors, 313–314, 316, 317–318; in rock-art, 50, 67, 75–76, 92; and Rogan Plates, 66, 290, 314, 315 birds: iconography of, 240–241; and rock-art, 75–76; Thunderbirds, 6, 47, 60–61. See also Crested Bird; hawk; Raptors Birger Figurine, 27, 50–51, 56, 91, 91 Braden art style: anthropomorphs, 300– 301, 305, 306, 309; and Dhegiha Sioux cosmology, 18, 51–52, 62, 63; individualizing theme, 293; and Muskogean cosmology, 18, 39; and Spiro engraved shells, 37, 38, 203; and Thruston Tablet, 164, 166, 168, 169, 172, 173. See also Classic Braden style Brain, Jeffrey, 94, 233, 254, 256–260, 295, 299 Brannon Disk, 225–226, 225 Brown, Ian W., 192, 196–197n.1 Brown, James, 9, 10–11, 12, 13, 66, 89, 146, 153, 170, 172, 173, 202, 207, 230, 236, 254, 261, 286, 289–290, 299, 308, 313, 314, 317, 318 Buchner, C. Andrew, 101, 107 Burns, Louis, 57, 58, 83–84 Bushnell Ceremonial Cave, Missouri, 67, 82, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86 Bushnell-Meissner site, Missouri, 83, 84, 85, 86 Cagle Lake site, Missouri, 265, 266 Cahokia: beaker, 85, 86; and Birdman, 73, 75, 314; and ceramic art, 105–106, 107, 108, 118; and Classic Braden style, index 350 28, 38, 39; and depiction of deities, 51; and Dhegiha Sioux people, 20, 41; iconography of, 67, 84, 87, 93; mounds of, 27–28, 66, 68, 71, 74; stone figurines, 37–38; Woodhenge, 43 calumet ceremony, 50, 317 Carson Red on Buff ceramics, 102, 263 Castalian Springs, Tennessee: iconography of, 67, 68, 87, 88; and Thruston Tablet, 139, 169, 174–175n.1, 176n.10 Castalian Springs Gorget, 169, 170, 172–173 Castalian Springs Tablet, 143 centering theme: Hemphill style, 219, 220, 221–226, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 233, 236; Hightower style, 280, 281, 288–289 center-symbols-and-bands theme, Hemphill style, 208, 208, 214, 215, 233, 238n.4 ceramic art: and Classic Braden style, 99–100; and effigies, 105, 106, 107, 110, 112, 113–114, 114, 173, 177–179, 178, 179, 180; and Great Serpent, 110, 112, 118, 120, 125, 129–130; Holmes’s classification of, 101–102, 103; motifs of, 104, 107, 109–110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 124, 125, 127, 242; and Moundville, 170, 171, 207–215, 208, 236, 251, 266–269, 267; Phillips’s classification of, 102–103; and swirlcross , 86, 130, 131, 251, 263–269, 264, 265, 267, 274–275; and Underwater Panther, 125–126, 126, 128–129, 129, 130, 131, 133; and utilitarian ritual ware, 100–101, 107–110, 113, 116–117, 120, 122 Cherokee people, 28, 246 Children of the Sun epic, 31, 76, 163, 164 Childs, Terry, 123, 127 circle motifs, 83–84, 84, 110 Citico style, 284–285, 284, 290, 292, 293 Classic Braden style: and Cahokia, 28, 38, 39; court-card design in, 31; defining , 203; and embossed copper, 285–286, 291; and Etowah, 290; and Moundville, 234, 235; and ogee motif, 90; and Osage cosmology, 27, 28; and regionalism, 99–100; and rock-art, 76; and Rogan Plates, 66, 290, 314, 315; and Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, 16; and Thruston Tablet, 173. See also Braden art style Commerce Eagle petroglyph, 67, 75 copper: Hemphill style, 213, 219, 220, 221–223, 221, 222, 287, 287; Hightower style, 279, 285–288, 286, 289, 291; local exceptions, 227–228, 228, 230; Moundville pendants and gorgets, 253, 269, 270, 271; and swirl-cross, 222, 222, 251...