Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction (Carol Diaz-Granados and Aaron Deter-Wolf)
• 1. Native American Tattooing in the Protohistoric Southeast (Antoinette B. Wallace)
• 2. Needle in a Haystack: Examining the Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Tattooing (Aaron Deter-Wolf)
• 3. Swift Creek Paddle Designs as Tattoos: Ethnographic Insights on Prehistoric Body Decoration and Material Culture (Benjamin A. Steere)
• 4. Tattoos, Totem Marks, and War Clubs: Projecting Power through Visual Symbolism in Northern Woodlands Culture (Lars Krutak)
• 5. The Art of Enchantment: Corporeal Marking and Tattooing Bundles of the Great Plains (Lars Krutak)
• 6. Identifying the Face of the Sacred: Tattooing the Images of Gods and Heroes in the Art of the Mississippian Period (F. Kent Reilly III)
• 7. Dhegihan Tattoos: Markings That Consecrate, Empower, and Designate Lineage (James R. Duncan)
• 8. Snaring Life from the Stars and the Sun: Mississippian Tattooing and the Enduring Cycle of Life and Death (David H. Dye)
• References
• Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Aaron Deter-Wolf is a prehistoric archaeologist with the Tennessee Division of Archaeology and an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University. Carol Diaz-Granados is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University, where she has taught for 32 years.

Reviews

"This is a fascinating volume on a subject for which detailed investigation is long overdue." - Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology