Author: Fundaburk, Emma Lila

Price: $24.80

Category:Art History & Criticism
Publication Date:2001-02-22T00:00:01Z
Pages:232
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0817310770
ISBN:13:9780817310776
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. 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.