Spiro (Geographic Keyword)

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Archaeological Survey Report: Final Realignment of the City of Spiro Sewer System Improvements Project, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. (2000)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James Briscoe.

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Big Boy pipe (2010)
IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

This is a pipe figurine dubbed "Big Boy." It was made at Cahokia around AD 1100-1150, but found at Spiro, Oklahoma, in a context dating to around AD 1400. Interpreted as Red Horn or Morning Star by James Brown. Note the long nose god mask earrings.


Birdman - more bird than man (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. Brown James.

This is an illustration and description of a shell exhibiting the Birdman from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 303.


Birdman cup (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of a shell cup from Spiro depicting the birdman. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 298.


Birdman cup fragments (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is an illustration and description of two fragments of a shell cup depicting the birdman. From Spiro, Oklahoma. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 301.


Birdman gorget (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of a shell gorget from Spiro. This gorget has birdman imagery in the Braden style. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 147.


Birdman images on shell cups (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of birdman imagery on shell cups. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 170.


Birdman on shell (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text F. Kent Reilly.

This is an illustration of the birdman on a shell cup from Spiro. Reilly interprets this image as the Morning Star. From Reilly 2007 "The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro."


Birdman on shell cup, lower body (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of the birdman on a shell cup from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 299.


Birdman shell cup (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is an illustration and description of a shell cup depicting a birdman from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 302.


Birdman shell fragments (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of several shell fragments with birdman imagery from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 304.


Birdman with mostly human attributes (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of a shell cup with a birdman from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 300.


Cosmology in the New World
PROJECT Santa Fe Institute.

This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.


Court-card birds in "copper" style (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is an illustration and description of bird-man like images on an engraved shell from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 165.1.


Follow-Up Investigations on the Town of Spiro Sewer Improvements Project, LeFlore, County, Oklahoma. (2000)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James Briscoe.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Fragmented birdman images (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of fragments of shell with birdman imagery. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 304.1.


Fragmented gorgets with birdman imagery (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is an illustration and description of several fragmented shell gorgets from Spiro with birdman imagery on them. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 138.


Gorget with Birdman (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of a shell gorget from Spiro depicting a birdman image. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 148.


Long-Nosed God maskettes on the Big Boy pipe
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

The following discusses the report of the Long-Nosed God maskettes on the Big Boy pipe from Spiro. Frpm Hall 1997 An Archaeology of the Soul.


Lopsided birds or bird-men (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is an illustration and description of engraved shell depicting a birdman-like image. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 166.


Meyer bird-man cup (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is an illustration and description of the Meyer bird-man cup from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 169.


More birdman cup fragments (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of shell cup fragments with birdman imagery. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 209.


The Multifarious Theme of Bird-man (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a brief description of the Birdman themes on engraved shell artifacts from the Spiro site.


Possible Birdman on shell (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. Brown James.

This is an illustration and description of a shell with possible birdman imagery from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 302.1.


Shell fragments of craig style birdman (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is an illustration and description of numerous shell fragments depicting the birdman. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 209.1.