Intersecting Symbols in Indigenous American and African Material Culture: Diffusion or Independent Invention and Who Decides?

Native American and African American material culture of mid-19thcentury to present day appear to hold evidence for a more ancient spiritual and cultural relationship between these two diverse peoples. There is evidence of strikingly similar, and in some instances, identical, pre-Columbian (before 1...

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Main Author: Moody, Donna L.
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2013
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1069
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2152&context=theses