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Title: Sun Circles and Human Hands
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Southeastern Indians - Art and Industries
EAN: 9780817310776
ISBN: 9780817310776
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 28/02/2001
Description: From utilitarian arrowheads to beautiful stone effigy pipes to ornately-carved shell disks, the photographs and drawings in Sun Circles and Human Hands present the archaeological record of the art and native crafts of the prehistoric southeastern Indians. Painstakingly compiled in the 1950s by two sisters who traveled the eastern United States interviewing archaeologists and collectors and visiting the major repositories, Sun Circles and Human Hands is remarkable for its breadth of illustration of Indian-made artifacts and its comprehensive documentation. Although research over the last 50 years has disproven many of the early theories reported in the text - which were not the editors' theories but those of the archaeologists of the day - the excellent illustrations of objects no longer available for examination have more than validated the lasting worth of this popular book. Broadly acclaimed when it first appeared, this new printing has the added value of Knight's foreword, which places the work in its proper context. Useful to museums, state and national parks, school libraries, gift stores, archaeological agencies, and private collections, Sun Circles and Human Hands is a rich pictorial survey accessible to anyone interested in early American Indian culture.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Weight: 456g
Contributor: Vernon James Knight Jr (Foreword by), Mary Douglass Fundaburk Foreman (Edited by), Emma Lila Fundaburk (Edited by)
Genre: Arts & Photography
Item Height: 266mm
Item Length: 197mm
Item Width: 15mm
Topic: History
Author: Vernon James Knight Jr
Release Year: 2001

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