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The book "Sun Circles & Human Hands", The Southeastern Indians Art and Industry, edited by Emma Lila Fundaburk and Mary Douglass Foreman, filled with photos, illustrations and descriptions by colonial writers and well-known authorities, is an incredible book. It carefully depicts the art, techniques of craftsmanship and life of Southeastern Indians. There is very little editorial, lots of photos, line drawings and verifiable facts about the Cherokees historical past.

Articfacts from the Spiro, Etowah, Moundville and other mounds are depicted.

The photos and lines drawings illustrate cultures developed by Southeastern Indians long before Europeans discovered the continent.

From stone tools made by Paleo-Indians some eight to fifteen thousand years ago, the book portrays, in sequence, the durable remains of the four major Southeastern culture periods; the Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippi.

Artifacts pictured are from Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Southeastern Missouri, Kentuck, Virgina and the Carolinas.

And... it also carried a few pages depicting "masks".