Long-nosed god maskette

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Map showing finds

Long-nosed god maskettes are

Red Horn.[3]

Archaeology

A Long-nosed god maskette excavated from the Yokem Mound Group in Pike County, Illinois, now in the N.M.A.I.

The first long nosed god maskette was found next to a skull in a grave in Big Mound in

Grant Mound in Duval County, Florida in 1894 along with two biconical copper covered ear-spools similar to ones from Cahokia.[6]

Long nosed god horizon

Archaeologists have long used the maskettes for dating different phases of the Mississippian culture. In the 1950s

Mississippian Ideological Interaction Sphere is the Developmental Cult Period which went from 900 to 1150 CE and is marked by the appearance of the Long nosed god maskettes.[8]

Theories about uses

"Resting Warrior" from Spiro with short nosed god maskette earring

The long-nosed god maskettes may have functioned in the Early Mississippian Period of the eastern United States within an adoption ritual much like that of the Calumet ceremony of the historic period.----to create fictions of kinship between the powerful leader of a large polity and his political clients in outlying areas.

— - Timothy R. Pauketat 2004[9]

Some archaeologists, including

Calumet ceremony, which is another fictive kinship/adoption ritual.[13] The differing shapes of the noses found on earpieces, including long, bent and short varieties, are explained by the myths as differing stages of the ritualized adoption process. In one Caddoan myth, the "wild brother" of the Hero Twins possesses a long nose which is magically shortened by a medicine man. This has led some researchers to think the masks start as the long nosed variety, denoting the first stage in the initiation process. As the individual progresses through the rituals, the nose is symbolically bent and eventually trimmed in the final phase, denoting full acceptance into the kinship system.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Native American:Prehistoric:Mississippian". Illinois State Museum. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
  2. ^ a b c Bostrom, Peter A. (2005-09-30). "Long & Short Nosed God Masks". Retrieved 2010-07-30.
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  5. ^ a b "Tejas". Retrieved 2010-07-30.
  6. ^ Ashley, Keith H. (2002). "On the periphery of the Early Mississippian world : Looking within and beyond Northeastern Florida" (PDF). Southeastern Archaeology. 2 (2).
  7. ^ "CORRECTED PROVENANCE FOR THE LONG-NOSED GOD MASK FROM "A CAVE NEAR ROGANA, TENNESSEE"". Southeastern Archaeology. 2009. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
  8. ^ Muller, Jon (1989). "The Southern Cult". In Galloway, Patricia (ed.). The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, Artifacts and Analysis:The Cottonlandia Conference. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 11–26.
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  10. ^ Fuller, Michael (2008). "Indian Hill Mound in St. Louis County, Missouri". Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  11. ^ "Aztalan – Wisconsin's Middle Mississippian Outpost". Milwaukee Public Museum. Archived from the original on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
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  13. ^ Dieterle, Richard L. "Redhorn (Wears Faces on His Ears)". Encyclopedia of Hočąk (Winnebago) Mythology. Retrieved 2010-08-19.

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