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Southern Cult Motifs on Walls-Pecan Point Pottery*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert L. Ranids
Robert L. Ranids*
Affiliation:
University of Mississippi, University, Miss
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Certain published designs from Walls-Pecan Point phase pottery are strikingly in the tradition of the socalled “Death Cult” of the Southeastern United States. Particular reference is made to 2 Walls Engraved bottles, illustrated by Phillips, Ford, and Griffin (1951, Fig. I ll g) and by Calvin Brown (1926, Fig. 278). The first of these, showing a winged serpent almost identical to those of Moundville, is at the University of Arkansas. The second, depicting skulls, long bones, and hands with oval markings at the, palms, is at the University of Mississippi.

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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 2Part1 , October 1956 , pp. 183 - 186
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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Footnotes

Paper read at Eleventh Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Moundville, Alabama, November, 1954. These remarks form part of a study aided by a Faculty Research Grant of the University of Mississippi.

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