Ritual change and the distant: Mesoamerican iconography, Scarlet Macaws, and Great Kivas in the Mimbres region of Southwestern New Mexico

American Antiquity

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 90-107

  Gilman, Patricia A ^a   Thompson, Marc ^b   Wyckoff, Kristina C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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EID: 84924105465     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.79.1.90     Document Type: Article

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