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Art, Death and Social Order

The Mortuary Arts of Pre-conquest Central Panama

by Peter S. Briggs ยท 1989

ISBN: 0860546977 9780860546979

Category: Art / Indigenous Art of the Americas

Page count: 263

This study is based on material from sites in the Tonosi valley and at Sitio Conte in the Cocle Province. Individuals are ranked in social order according to the objects in their graves, and contrasted, in analysis with the ranking structure of the US army. Gazetteer of grave finds, tabular presentation of data.