A Long-Nosed God Mask From Northwest Iowa
- 1 July 1975
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 40 (3) , 326-329
- https://doi.org/10.2307/279695
Abstract
A Long-Nosed God mask from the surface of a Mill Creek site in northwest Iowa is described and discussed in the light of previous discoveries. It is found that the Iowa mask (I) expands the distribution of this already widespread artistic expression, (2) underscores the degree and intensity of Mississippian-Mitt Creek connections, (3) tends to confirm the long-held supposition that Mill Creek exchanges with the Mississippian heartlands involved ideology as well as technology and material goods, and (4) supports the hypothesis that there are distinct Long-Nosed God and Southern Cult “horizons” on the northern portion of the Prairie Peninsula.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Mississippian Influences On The Eastern Plains Border: an EvaluationPlains Anthropologist, 1967
- The Short-Nosed God from the Emmons Site, IllinoisAmerican Antiquity, 1961