George E Lankford
Biographic Data
| ID | 341767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George E Lankford |
| GIVEN NAMES | George E |
| FAMILY NAME | Lankford |
| SIGNATURE | LANKFORD G E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lyon College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Effigy pipes of the Lower Mississippi Valley
The Holly Bluff style
We recognize a new style of Mississippian-period art in the North American Southeast, calling it Holly Bluff. It is a two-dimensional style of representational art that appears solely on containers: marine shell cups and ceramic vessels. Iconographically, the style focuses on the depiction of zoomorphic supernatural powers of the Beneath World. Seriating the known corpus of images allows us to characterize three successive style phases, Holly Blu…
Native American Legends of the Southeast
Looking for Lost Lore
Gifts of the Great River
Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss Collection. By John H. House. (Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, 2003. Pp. xii, 108. $21.95, paper.) The St. Francis River runs from the Ozarks in Missouri south along the east side of Crowley's Ridge until it flows into the Mississippi River just above Helena. With the Black and White Rivers at the Ozark Escarpment to the west and the Mississippi Rive…
Fent Noland
ON THE FIRST DAY OF 1858, sitting in a silent, empty house on Main Street in Batesville, Arkansas, a slender man, between coughing spells, penned a letter to his nephew in far-off Virginia: I am the sole tenant of the old mansion, in it and write from a room filled with a thousand memories of the past. Were I a believer in spiritualism and a medium, I could conjure up many beloved forms, who have passed from this to a better world. I do not ever …
Bearing Witness
No one knew the truths of slavery better than the slaves themselves, but no one consulted them until the 1930s. Then, recognizing that this generation of unique witnesses would soon be lost to history, the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project acted to interview as many former slaves as possible. In a continuation of the project's interest in the life histories of ordinary people, writers interviewed over two thousand former sl…
Ten More Voices
IN 2003, THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PRESS published Bearing Witness, a volume of interviews that employees of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted in the 1930s with people who had been slaves in Arkansas.1 The problem the book attempted to solve was that the 176 narratives had been difficult to locate and use, being scattered through forty volumes of interviews collected by George Rawick in The American Slave: A Composite Autobiograp…
François Vallé and His World
Opening the Ozarks
Shawnee Convergence
FOR MANY YEARS A FRONTIER was understood to be simply a boundary between two or more societies with different cultures. When one side was characterized as native, the complementary understanding was that an inevitable decline and absorption of the weaker group would occur. In recent years, however, a much more complex understanding of the dynamic process in the confrontation of two societies has emerged. Central to the new vision is the replaceme…
French Roots in the Illinois Country
Carl Ekberg has done it again.French Roots in the Illinois Country, like his earlier study of Ste.Geneviève, Colonial Ste.Geneviève: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier ('1985), is a model of social history that masterfully illuminates the French experience in the upper Mississippi valley.Few if any historians have looked at this region as closely or as well as Ekberg.That the French were the first Europeans to settle in the region is an ess…
The Indians' New South
The French Experience in Louisiana
Losing the Past
Native American Legends (Southeastern Legends)
Native American Legends
Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God
The Charm Is Broken. Readings in Arkansas and Missouri Folklore
Ozark Tales and Superstitions
Pleistocene Animals in Folk Memory
MAMMOTHS AND MANKIND LIVED TOGETHER in North America millennia ago. One human even carved the image of a mammoth on a shell, but because of geological ambiguity in the Delaware River Valley it is impossible to assign a precise date to the occurrence. It could be extraordinarily ancient artifact (circa 40,000 B.C.), but it is safer to assign a transitional Paleo-Archaic date to it (circa 8000 B.C.).1 The latter date will occasion little surprise a…
Folklore Theses and Dissertations in the United States
"A Night with the Hants" and Other Alabama Folk Experiences
Native American Legends (Southeastern Legends)
Pleistocene Animals in Folk Memory
MAMMOTHS AND MANKIND LIVED TOGETHER in North America millennia ago. One human even carved the image of a mammoth on a shell, but because of geological ambiguity in the Delaware River Valley it is impossible to assign a precise date to the occurrence. It could be extraordinarily ancient artifact (circa 40,000 B.C.), but it is safer to assign a transitional Paleo-Archaic date to it (circa 8000 B.C.).1 The latter date will occasion little surprise a…
The Holly Bluff style
We recognize a new style of Mississippian-period art in the North American Southeast, calling it Holly Bluff. It is a two-dimensional style of representational art that appears solely on containers: marine shell cups and ceramic vessels. Iconographically, the style focuses on the depiction of zoomorphic supernatural powers of the Beneath World. Seriating the known corpus of images allows us to characterize three successive style phases, Holly Blu…
Native American Legends of the Southeast
Looking for Lost Lore
Gifts of the Great River
Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss Collection. By John H. House. (Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, 2003. Pp. xii, 108. $21.95, paper.) The St. Francis River runs from the Ozarks in Missouri south along the east side of Crowley's Ridge until it flows into the Mississippi River just above Helena. With the Black and White Rivers at the Ozark Escarpment to the west and the Mississippi Rive…
The Indians' New South
"A Night with the Hants" and Other Alabama Folk Experiences
Folklore Theses and Dissertations in the United States
Pleistocene Animals in Folk Memory
MAMMOTHS AND MANKIND LIVED TOGETHER in North America millennia ago. One human even carved the image of a mammoth on a shell, but because of geological ambiguity in the Delaware River Valley it is impossible to assign a precise date to the occurrence. It could be extraordinarily ancient artifact (circa 40,000 B.C.), but it is safer to assign a transitional Paleo-Archaic date to it (circa 8000 B.C.).1 The latter date will occasion little surprise a…
The Charm Is Broken. Readings in Arkansas and Missouri Folklore
Ozark Tales and Superstitions
Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God
Native American Legends (Southeastern Legends)
Native American Legends
Losing the Past
The French Experience in Louisiana
The Indians' New South
Shawnee Convergence
FOR MANY YEARS A FRONTIER was understood to be simply a boundary between two or more societies with different cultures. When one side was characterized as native, the complementary understanding was that an inevitable decline and absorption of the weaker group would occur. In recent years, however, a much more complex understanding of the dynamic process in the confrontation of two societies has emerged. Central to the new vision is the replaceme…
French Roots in the Illinois Country
Carl Ekberg has done it again.French Roots in the Illinois Country, like his earlier study of Ste.Geneviève, Colonial Ste.Geneviève: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier ('1985), is a model of social history that masterfully illuminates the French experience in the upper Mississippi valley.Few if any historians have looked at this region as closely or as well as Ekberg.That the French were the first Europeans to settle in the region is an ess…
François Vallé and His World
Opening the Ozarks
Ten More Voices
IN 2003, THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PRESS published Bearing Witness, a volume of interviews that employees of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted in the 1930s with people who had been slaves in Arkansas.1 The problem the book attempted to solve was that the 176 narratives had been difficult to locate and use, being scattered through forty volumes of interviews collected by George Rawick in The American Slave: A Composite Autobiograp…
Fent Noland
ON THE FIRST DAY OF 1858, sitting in a silent, empty house on Main Street in Batesville, Arkansas, a slender man, between coughing spells, penned a letter to his nephew in far-off Virginia: I am the sole tenant of the old mansion, in it and write from a room filled with a thousand memories of the past. Were I a believer in spiritualism and a medium, I could conjure up many beloved forms, who have passed from this to a better world. I do not ever …
Bearing Witness
No one knew the truths of slavery better than the slaves themselves, but no one consulted them until the 1930s. Then, recognizing that this generation of unique witnesses would soon be lost to history, the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project acted to interview as many former slaves as possible. In a continuation of the project's interest in the life histories of ordinary people, writers interviewed over two thousand former sl…
Gifts of the Great River
Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss Collection. By John H. House. (Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, 2003. Pp. xii, 108. $21.95, paper.) The St. Francis River runs from the Ozarks in Missouri south along the east side of Crowley's Ridge until it flows into the Mississippi River just above Helena. With the Black and White Rivers at the Ozark Escarpment to the west and the Mississippi Rive…
Looking for Lost Lore
Native American Legends of the Southeast
The Holly Bluff style
We recognize a new style of Mississippian-period art in the North American Southeast, calling it Holly Bluff. It is a two-dimensional style of representational art that appears solely on containers: marine shell cups and ceramic vessels. Iconographically, the style focuses on the depiction of zoomorphic supernatural powers of the Beneath World. Seriating the known corpus of images allows us to characterize three successive style phases, Holly Blu…
Effigy pipes of the Lower Mississippi Valley
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