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

Philip Phillips attributed the original use of the word to Herbert Spinden, a Mesoamericanist who had suggested in 1931 that the Southeastern art was the result of a “warrior cult” diffused from Mexico (Williams 1968:72).