Symbolism of Mississippian mounds

Powhatans Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast, Revised and Expanded Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 421-434

  Knight, Vernon James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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