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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.

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.

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.

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.

IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

This is a pottery sherd from Cahokia's Tract 15B with an etched image of the birdman. Dates to about AD 1300. Photo courtesy of Tim Pauketat.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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This is the famous birdman tablet found at Cahokia. Dates to around AD 1200. Image from www.lithiccastinglab.com

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.

IMAGE Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

This is an image of a copper plate from Dunklin County, Missouri, dates between 1200 and 1400. Interpreted to be Birdman, Morning Star, or Red Horn by James Brown (2004, The Cahokian Expression: Creating Court and Cult. In Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand, Art Institute of Chicago). Image from smmercury.com

IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

This is an image of a copper plate depicting two dancers from Union County Illinois. Interpreted by James Brown as the birdman (In "The Cahokian Expression," Hero, Hawk and Open Hand, 2004, The Art Institute of Chicago). Image from flickr.com.

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Brown.

This is an illustration of several copper plates depicting the birdman theme. From Brown 2007 "On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography."

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Brown.

This is an illustration of several copper plates showing the birdman. From Brown 2007 "On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

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