imagery in the LMV clearly illustrates that this area also shared Moundville’s preoccupation with the Beneath World and the realm of the dead. LMV winged serpent imagery and symbolism, unlike Moundville’s, seem greatly concerned with the information that locative placement generated. Certainly the Underwater Panther imagery that was explicit in the art of the LMV was implicit in the art of Moundville. The two iconographic corpora are decidedly similar, but the LMV tradition was not copying the winged imagery from Moundville.
