Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)

by George E. Lankford

Foreground Group 3 is composed of a figure in an enclosure on the left separated from a figure on the right by a petaloid staff. That same composition, in a quite different style, is found on a shell engraving from Spiro