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

the depiction of a cloaklike garment that is common to many of these straight-backed and humpbacked effigies, rendered in black-on-white-slip or black-on-buff-paste negative painting, exemplifying the ceramic type known as “Nashville Negative Painted”