{"product_id":"early-art-of-the-southeastern-indians-feathered-serpents-and-winged-beings-9780820325019","title":"Early Art of the Southeastern Indians: Feathered Serpents and Winged Beings","description":"\u003cp\u003eEarly Art of the Southeastern Indians is a visual journey through time  highlighting some of the most skillfully created art in native North America. The remarkable objects described and pictured here  many in full color  reveal the hands of master artists who developed lapidary and weaving traditions  established centers for production of shell and copper objects  and created the first ceramics in North America. Presenting artifacts originating in the Archaic through the Mississippian periodsfrom thousands of years ago through A.D. 1600Susan C. Power introduces us to an extraordinary assortment of ceremonial and functional objects  including pipes  vessels  figurines  and much more. Drawn from every corner of the Southeastfrom Louisiana to the Ohio River valley  from Florida to Oklahomathe pieces chronicle the emergence of new media and the mastery of new techniques as they offer clues to their creators widening awareness of their physical and spiritual worlds. The most complex works  writes Power  were linked to male (and sometimes female) leaders. Wearing bold ensembles consisting of symbolic colors  sacred media  and richly complex designs  the leaders controlled large ceremonial centers that were noteworthy in regional art history  such as Etowah  Georgia; Spiro  Oklahoma; Cahokia  Illinois; and Moundville  Alabama. Many objects were used locally; others circulated to distant locales. Power comments on the widening of artists subjects  starting with animals and insects  moving to humans  then culminating in supernatural combinations of both  and she discusses how a pieces artistic language could function as a visual shorthand in local style and expression  yet embody an iconography of regional proportions. The remarkable achievements of these southeastern artists delight the senses and engage the mind while giving a brief glimpse into the rich  symbolic world of feathered serpents and winged beings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652577222709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0820325015","price":104.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780820325019.jpg?v=1781852049","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/early-art-of-the-southeastern-indians-feathered-serpents-and-winged-beings-9780820325019","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}