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copper plates: Mississippian mound builder art
swamp monkey:
I found reference to a cedar mask that is of interest here. It was a Mississippian era eastern red cedar mask. . . human face effigy really. Kinda small to be a real mask. Any way it was carved and covered with a thin sheet of copper. Then two falcon masked were painted over the eyes to go on the cheeks. I will try to post something that explains that in a picture.
The reason I posted it is it shows SOME copper art was embellished with paint. I am not saying all of it was but this one for sure was.
riverrat:
nice work. soon as i seen that "sucker fish" my first thought is wow that looks more like a "buffalo fish" which they probley ate smoked on a rack cause its easy to bow fish and spear them as opposed to suckers which stay out in the water further from shore. lol i like your work. thats really nice.Tony
Del the cat:
Very cool work... I love working copper.
Del
swamp monkey:
--- Quote from: riverrat on January 01, 2016, 10:18:58 am ---nice work. soon as i seen that "sucker fish" my first thought is wow that looks more like a "buffalo fish" which they probley ate smoked on a rack cause its easy to bow fish and spear them as opposed to suckers which stay out in the water further from shore. lol i like your work. thats really nice.Tony
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Since I posted that copper "sucker fish" I have studied a number of whelk shell engravings from Spiro OK. Some of them have fish. Everyone of those fish looks a lot like a buffalo fish. One of the shell drawings is pictured below. Now I wonder if that copper fish wasn't meant to be a buffalo. Interesting that you interpreted that buffalo right away.
riverrat:
i bow fished for them many a time. as well as took a few with a leister spear i made wayyyy back.i have studied from books some of the cultures in my neck of the woods. and they ate those buffalo fish. that top fin gives it away for me. ive smoked them over a slow fire on willow racks. good eating really.now of days i can them up. call them poor mans salmon. thats what it tastes and smells like.wish i was skilled like that . id make me a copper neck piece with that fish on it.Tony
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