Mississippian Figure, 13th–14th century, United States, Tennessee, Duck River region, Mississippian, Quartz sandstone, H. 26 1/2 x W. 14 x D. 10 3/4 in. (67.3 x 35.6 x 27.3 cm), Stone-Sculpture, This ancestral figure was one of a male-female pair when discovered in 1895 on the banks of the Duck River in Humphreys County, Tennessee. Such figures played important roles among the more complex Mississippian societies of the Southeast during later precolonial times, when they were the focus of ancestor cults
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Mississippian Figure, 13th–14th century, United States, Tennessee, Duck River region, Mississippian, Quartz sandstone, H, 26 1/2 x W, 14 D, 10 3/4, 67.3 35.6 27.3 cm, Stone-Sculpture, ancestral, figure, male-female pair, discovered, 1895, banks, River, Humphreys County, figures played, important, roles, complex Mississippian, societies, Southeast, later precolonial, times, focus, ancestor cults
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