Cox Mound Gorget - Tennessee Encyclopedia
2017年10月8日 · The Cox Mound, or Woodpecker, gorget style is a particularly beautiful and enduring symbol of Tennessee’s prehistoric inhabitants. A gorget was a pendant, or personal adornment, worn around the neck as a badge of rank or insignia of status and was thought to be symbolic of both earthly and supernatural powers.
Shell gorget - Wikipedia
Shell gorgets are a Native American art form of polished, carved shell pendants worn around the neck. The gorgets are frequently engraved, and are sometimes highlighted with pigments, or fenestrated (pierced with openings).
Dates for Shell Gorgets and The Southeastern Ceremonial …
2001年3月1日 · Engraved marine shell gorgets are one of the most common types of SECC items found in eastern Tennessee. In 1959, Madeline Kneberg, a founder of the McClung Museum, published a typology and chronology for these finely-crafted pendants (Figure 1) (Kneberg, 1959).
The Land and Native People | A History of Tennessee Student …
Native Americans in Tennessee began to grow maize, or corn, around 800–1000 AD. This development allowed towns and villages to grow rapidly. During the Mississippian period, organized chiefdoms developed in population centers such as Mound Bottom in Middle Tennessee and Toqua and Citico in East Tennessee.
Yuchi Indians - Tennessee Encyclopedia
2017年10月8日 · The Yuchi Indians are a North American Indian tribe belonging to the Southeastern Indian cultural group. Ethnohistorians indicate that during the historic period there were three principal bands of Yuchi: one on the Tennessee River, one in west Florida, and one on the Savannah River.
Smarthistory – America before Columbus
In the centuries before European contact, Native Americans built networks of cities that shared technologies, belief systems, and cultural forms. This Mississippian gorget, made from a shell found in the Gulf of Mexico, but discovered in a burial mound in Tennessee, demonstrates the extensive exchange between native peoples in different ...
NATIVE HISTORY ASSOCIATION - The Mississippian Period
Mississippian artists produced unique art works. They engraved shell pendants called "gorgets" with animal and human figures, and carved ceremonial objects out of flint. They sculpted human figures and other objects in stone. Potters molded their clay into many shapes, sometimes decorating them with painted designs.
The Cox Mound Gorget | Sigils Symbols and Signs
2017年2月26日 · The Cox Mound, or Woodpecker, gorget style is a particularly beautiful and enduring symbol of Tennessee’s prehistoric inhabitants. A gorget was a pendant, or personal adornment, worn around the neck as a badge of rank or insignia of status and was thought to be symbolic of both earthly and supernatural powers.
Mississippian Culture - Tennessee Encyclopedia
2017年10月8日 · A century later, the remnants of Mississippian culture regenerated as the historic Native Americans of Tennessee–especially the Chickasaws in the West and the Cherokees in the East.
Native American Archives - Tennessee Encyclopedia
The Cox Mound, or Woodpecker, gorget style is a particularly beautiful and enduring symbol of Tennessee's prehistoric inhabitants. A gorget was a pendant, or personal adornment, worn around the neck as a badge of rank or insignia of status and…