Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss Collection

ISBN-13: 9780873654012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 120 str.

John H. House; Ian W. Brown; Ian W. Brown

Opis

This attractive volume catalogues the effigy pottery so-called because they're decorated with the heads and sometimes with the fins, tails, and feet of various creatures collected from prehistoric mounds in Arkansas for the Peabody Museum by Edwin Curtiss in the late 19th century. The collecting expedition is described at length in initial chapters