… nd Severed Heads and Sacred Scalplocks: Mississippian Iconographic Tro- … Tracing
Organizational Change in Mississippian Chiefdoms of the Etowah River Valley, Georgia. Ph.D�…

… with iconographic imagery representing both naturalistic and supernatural elements, these
cultural and religious objects characterized the core of the Mississippian … in ancient times.…

… to Kent Reilly and colleagues who convened a series of … attention to Mississippian art,
otherworldly beings, and sacred objects, … , the authors point out how interpretations of rock art …

… by these artifacts we can better understand Mississippian … meaning behind geometrical
symbolism within Mississippian … precedence in the Mississippian material realm. To venture a …

… detail on the method of iconographic interpretation. In Chapter 3, I … provided by Adam King
(2007). I will show how a distinctive … Broadening the research by Reilly and Guernsey (2006), I …

… and hidden knowledge” (Reilly and Garber 2007:2) that were an important component of the
… search for answers to questions about the original purpose and meaning of Serpent Mound. …

… While other interpretations remain plausible, we offer that … investigations of significant
iconographic objects may be informed … State University including particularly Kent Reilly, George …

… large heartshaped object suspended from the front of his belt. Comparative analysis among
… Southeast as a depiction of real events in real time—that is, as snapshots from the realm of …

… readings thematically relating to the Great Bird and his … to Kent Reilly and his colleagues
(Reilly and Garber 2007; … relate to many depictions of such objects on top of cropped feather-…

… The object of this section is to demonstrate how feathers were … symbolism in the mace’s
design reinforces the interpretation … Kent Reilly, for his insight and comments on previous drafts …