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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

Mississippian engraved jar

Courtesy of Department of Sociology and Anthropology Archaeology Laboratory, University of Mississippi, Davies Collection 3359

Mississippian engraved jar.

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Courtesy of Department of Sociology and Anthropology Archaeology Laboratory, University of Mississippi, Davies Collection 3359
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