Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss Collection (Peabody Museum Collections Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (693 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0873654013 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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John House brings us a lively account of the work of this nineteenth-century fieldworker, the Native culture he explored, and the rich legacies left by both. By the time Curtiss completed his fifty-six days of Arkansas fieldwork, he had sent nearly 1,000 pottery vessels to Cambridge and had put the Peabody on the map as the repository of one of the world's finest collections of Mississippian artifacts. In 1879 Edwin Curtiss set out for the wild St. The result is a vivid re-creation of the world of Indian peoples in the Mississippi River lowlands in the last centuries befo
(American Archaeology)House selected works for twenty-five color plates and produced clear, informative paragraphs to accompany each photograph. (George E. This fascinating volume introduces readers to the little-known fieldwork of Edwin Curtiss and provides a fresh view of the exciting prehistoric ceramic art of northeastern Arkansas. Lankford Arkansas Historical Quarterly) . In forty-one pages, House takes the reader through an introduction to the Parkin Phase, the basics of what is known or inferred about the cultural life of those prehistoric people, and a tour of the sites as they were dug by Edwin Curtiss, with many glimpses into the life of an 1880 archaeologist in the Arkansas delta. (Hester Davis, Arkansas State Archaeologist
Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss Collection (Peabody Gene Hickman One of the best overviews I've seen on pottery from this era and area. The Edwin Curtiss and Peabody stuff is always great.. RICHARD SP8DER SMITH said Five Stars. 5 stars great informative book, I learned a few new things, and glad its on my bookshelf.
John H. . House is Station Archaeologist, Pine Bluff Research Station, and Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville