Table of Content
VOLUME ONE Foreword by Stephen Williams Preface 1. The Archaeological Background to Spiro An Unopened Mound A Fateful Combination The Outside World Learns A Disastrous Chain of Events The "Central Cavity" The Romance of Spiro History of the Professional Excavation The Making of a Park The Geography of Spiro The Spiro Site and Its Prehistoric Cultural Setting An Interpretation of Spiro Site Organization The Great Mortuary in the Craig Mound Site Chronology Subsistence and Technology The Temple-Town Layout and Settlement Pattern Prehistoric Social Organization at Spiro Indicators of Social and Political Organization in Grave Goods Networks of Trade and Exchange Problem of Origins Whither To? Summary 2. Physical and Technological Aspects of the Sample Field and Laboratory Procedures Dimension of the Sample Questions of Archaeological Provenience The Engraved Shell Cup The King-Size Gorgets of Spiro Technical Features as Attributes of Style 3. Nomenclature and Scheme of Organization School, Phase, and Tradition The Artist and His or Her Works Hypotheses of Organization Internal Evidence Bearing on the Chronology of Hypothesis D 4. The Formal Qualities of Design The Shell Cup as Field for Decoration Presenting Cup and Gorget Design Structures Nonoriented Design Structures Vertical Axial Design Structures: Major Components Centered on Vertical Axis of Cup or Gorget Off-Centered Vertical Axial Design Structures Horizontal Axial Design Structure Bilaterally Symmetrical Design Structures Horizontally Banded Design Structures Circular, Spiral, and Swastika Design Structures Interlocking Design Structures 5. Secondary Features of Human Figural Design Components Attitudes and Proportions of Human Figures Heads Ear and Earspool Combinations Hands in the Functional-Anatomical Aspect Hair and Hairdress Supplemental Hair Forms Beaded Hair Locks, Fore, Side, and Back Headdresses and Associated Forms Earspools and Associated Features Adornments of the Upper Body Wraparound Skirts and Other Garments Belts With and Without Sashes The Bellows-Shaped Apron The Back Apron Miscellaneous Types of Footwear 6. Approaches to Some Iconographic Problems The Related Concepts of Theme and Motif The Theme of Multiple Figures in Motion Three Armed Figures Surrounding a Rectangular Enclosure Paired Figures, Confronted or Back to Back The Chunkee Player, a Gorget Theme Paired Figures in Serpentine Canoes Single Figures Holding Two Serpent Staffs, One in Each Hand Single Figures in Profile Holding a Serpent Staff in Both Hands Dual Figures Confronting a Serpent Staff: The Forked-Pole Theme The Theme of Heads and the Problem of the Serrated Neck Themes Involving Composite Human and Animal Subjects The Multifarious Theme of Bird-Man Bird-Man in Structure Resembling Mexican Day Sign Calli Meaning "House" The Theme of Intertwined Snake-Men Themes Involving Animal and Composite-Animal Subjects The Theme of Intertwined Snakes The Theme of Snakes and Talons A Protean Manifestation: The Piasa Phantasmagoria A Glossary of Motifs 7. External Connections Hopewellian and Post-Hopewellian Forerunners Engraved Shell in Caddoan Sites Other Than Spiro "Eastern" Connections in General: The Southern Cult Some Spiro-Cahokia Conn
