The imagery discussed here is not restricted to the Prairie-Forest border and the Upper Mississippi Valley. The essentials of the belief system and cosmology are widely shared throughout the East. However, the principles embodied in the earth-sky dualism have created a specific version of this system that is linked visually to the Braden style. Examples of this style are particularly strong in representing the Sacred Hawk (as Morning Star) and the Earthmother cycles, both of which are strongly related to plant, animal, and human generation.
