Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
If totemic symbols are represented stylistically or realistically
in the arts, is it possible that archaeological evidence
could be found to indicate that Weeden Island and Kolomoki
effigy figurines and designs could be totemic? The sociopolitical
and religious systems of certain historic tribes,
the Creeks, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez provide a view
of basic cultural trends in the Post-contact Southeastern
United States. The hypothesis, drawing from the fact
totemic systems did to some extent exist among these tribes,
attempts to establish stylistic patterns in effigy figurines
and relate them to what is known of social and religious
systems in the Northwest Florida-Southwest Georgia area.
Such patterns were established, and some groups of effigies
do tend to cluster in certain areas, but definite totemic
sociopolitical associations have yet to be proved.
in the arts, is it possible that archaeological evidence
could be found to indicate that Weeden Island and Kolomoki
effigy figurines and designs could be totemic? The sociopolitical
and religious systems of certain historic tribes,
the Creeks, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez provide a view
of basic cultural trends in the Post-contact Southeastern
United States. The hypothesis, drawing from the fact
totemic systems did to some extent exist among these tribes,
attempts to establish stylistic patterns in effigy figurines
and relate them to what is known of social and religious
systems in the Northwest Florida-Southwest Georgia area.
Such patterns were established, and some groups of effigies
do tend to cluster in certain areas, but definite totemic
sociopolitical associations have yet to be proved.
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