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at Moundville, where those particular images from the larger iconographic corpus are found clustered on pottery included in mortuary contexts. Their co-occurrence on bottles and their separation from other images helped identify them as participants in a single area of meaning, at least at Moundville. One other image shares space on a bottle in the Path of Souls cluster: a bird.
Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
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