Mississippian engraved jar
This ca. 1400 ceramic jar is engraved with powerful symbols of Mississippian cosmology, including skulls with arrows, bones, and a variation of the hand-and-eye motif
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Courtesy of | Department of Sociology and Anthropology Archaeology Laboratory, University of Mississippi, Davies Collection 3359 |
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