Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1975

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Sears, William H.

Abstract

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.

Extent

93 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13739

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