The Mississippian Site of Origin for the So-Called Moundville Spider |
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| Authors: | Duane Esarey Ian W Brown Anjaneen Coble |
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| Institution: | 1. Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA;2. Department of Anthropology and Alabama Museum of Natural History, University of Alabama, University, Alabama, USA;3. Englewood, Florida, USA |
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| Abstract: | For 60 years, the origin of an iconographically significant example of Southeastern Mississippian symbolic art has been enmeshed in error and ambiguity. A trail of sleuthing over 25 years provides information used to assess museum curation records and published clues from 1887 to the present, contextualizing the mystery and finally allowing identification of a specific Mississippian period cemetery of origin for the so-called Moundville spider. |
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| Keywords: | Moundville Perry Spider Motif Gorget |
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