Birdman on shell

Part of the Cosmology in the New World project

Author(s): F. Kent Reilly

Year: 2007

Summary

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."

Cite this Record

Birdman on shell. F. Kent Reilly. In Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms. Pp. 39-55. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2007 ( tDAR id: 5660) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8V123FT

Keywords

Culture
Mississippian

Material
Shell

Site Name
Spiro

Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

General
Birdman • Braden B • Falcon Dancer • Morning Star • Red Horn • Shell

Geographic Keywords
Midwest • Oklahoma • Spiro

Temporal Keywords
Mississippian

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1200 to 1200

Spatial Coverage

min long: -94.796; min lat: 34.922 ; max long: -94.373; max lat: 35.55 ;

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