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The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri
James F. Cherry
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Description for The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri
Hardcover. Produced by two groups the Spanish called the Casqui and Pacaha and dating circa AD 1400-1700, headpots occur, with few exceptions, only in a small region of Arkansas and Missouri. This title offers a comprehensive catalog of 138 identified classical style headpots and a resource for understanding the meaning of these remarkable ceramic vessels. Num Pages: 384 pages, 828 colour photographs, 232 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBNU; 1KBBSR; ACBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1157.
This title discusses about rare and mysterious pottery from the Mississippian Culture. In 1981, James F. Cherry embarked on what evolved into a passionate, personal quest to identify and document all the known headpots of Mississippian Indian culture from northeast Arkansas and the bootheel region of southeast Missouri. Produced by two groups the Spanish called the Casqui and Pacaha and dating circa AD 1400-1700, headpots occur, with few exceptions, only in a small region of Arkansas and Missouri. Relatively little is known about these headpots: did they portray kinsmen or enemies, the living or the dead or were they used ... Read more
This title discusses about rare and mysterious pottery from the Mississippian Culture. In 1981, James F. Cherry embarked on what evolved into a passionate, personal quest to identify and document all the known headpots of Mississippian Indian culture from northeast Arkansas and the bootheel region of southeast Missouri. Produced by two groups the Spanish called the Casqui and Pacaha and dating circa AD 1400-1700, headpots occur, with few exceptions, only in a small region of Arkansas and Missouri. Relatively little is known about these headpots: did they portray kinsmen or enemies, the living or the dead or were they used ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288974
SKU
V9781557288974
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99-15
About James F. Cherry
James F. Cherry is a retired physician who has been researching headpots for over twenty-five years. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Robert C. Mainfort Jr. is an archaeolgist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey, a professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, and the author of Sam Dellinger: Raiders of the Lost Arkansas (University of Arkansas Press).
Reviews for The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri
"A volume of lasting value to professional and avocational archaeologists, museum curators, art historians, and collectors of Precolumbian artifacts... indispensable to researchers interested in the late prehistory of the Midsouth." - Robert C. Mainfort Jr., From the Foreword"