Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma |
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| Author:
| Phillips, Philip
Brown, James A.
Brain, Jeffrey P. |
| Series title: | Peabody Museum Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87365-777-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1990 |
| Publisher: | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, Publications Department
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $360.00 |
Book Description:
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Unequaled in North America as a single source of prehistoric figurative and decorative art, the Craig burial mound was plundered by commercial diggers in 1933. Hundreds of fragile shell artifacts covered with engraved designs were quickly sold and, whole or fragmented, were scattered in public and private collections across the country.
For the past ten years, Dr. Philip Phillips, Honorary Curator of Southeastern Archaeology at Harvard, has supervised a massive project that...
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Unequaled in North America as a single source of prehistoric figurative and decorative art, the Craig burial mound was plundered by commercial diggers in 1933. Hundreds of fragile shell artifacts covered with engraved designs were quickly sold and, whole or fragmented, were scattered in public and private collections across the country.
For the past ten years, Dr. Philip Phillips, Honorary Curator of Southeastern Archaeology at Harvard, has supervised a massive project that has involved making rubbings and line drawings of this whole corpus of Southeastern Indian art, matching hundreds of fragments, and classifying the engraved designs by schools.
Volume VI, the last volume of the set, deals with the final phase of the Craig style, then concludes with a summary of the study, a bibliography, and an extensive index.