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Making pictures in stone [print and electronic resource] : American Indian rock art of the Northeast / Edward J. Lenik.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.Description: xix, 251 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780817316297 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0817316299 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780817355098 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 081735509X (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780817380779 (electronic)
  • 0817380779 (electronic)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 709.01/13089973 22
LOC classification:
  • E99.A35 L46 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Algonquian people in the northeast -- Ezra Stiles : pioneer rock art researcher in eighteenth-century New England -- Culturally altered trees -- Nonportable rock art sites -- Landscapes in myths and legends -- Portable rock art -- Pendants and gorgets -- Decorated tablets, pebbles, and cobbles -- Sculpted heads and effigy faces -- Decorated stone tools -- Nonutilitarian effigy stones -- Dreams, visions, and signs.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-242) and index.

Algonquian people in the northeast -- Ezra Stiles : pioneer rock art researcher in eighteenth-century New England -- Culturally altered trees -- Nonportable rock art sites -- Landscapes in myths and legends -- Portable rock art -- Pendants and gorgets -- Decorated tablets, pebbles, and cobbles -- Sculpted heads and effigy faces -- Decorated stone tools -- Nonutilitarian effigy stones -- Dreams, visions, and signs.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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