Spiro (Site Name Keyword)
1-25 (27 Records)
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)
This is an illustration and description of a shell exhibiting the Birdman from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 303.
Birdman cup (1978)
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)
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)
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)
This is a description and illustration of birdman imagery on shell cups. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 170.
Birdman on shell (2007)
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)
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)
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)
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)
This is a description and illustration of a shell cup with a birdman from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 300.
Copper repousee plates showing birdman 2 (2007)
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."
Cosmic Order and Change in Pre-columbian Eastern North America (2006)
The authors attempt to understand pan-continental cultural relationships as well as explain how cosmologies developed through time in the eastern Woodlands and Great Plains of North America. To do this, the authors deal with both the overall traditions of entire populations or time periods and specific, local expressions of these overall traditions.
Cosmology in the New World
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)
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.
Fragmented birdman images (1978)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
This is a brief description of the Birdman themes on engraved shell artifacts from the Spiro site.
Possible Birdman on shell (1978)
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)
This is an illustration and description of numerous shell fragments depicting the birdman. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 209.1.