Unified Theory of Cosmogram Decorations on Potteries of the Upper Midwest: Part I. Early Woodland Period

IF 0.4 Q1 Arts and Humanities
D. Benn
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ABSTRACT Early Woodland Liverpool (Black Sand variant) pottery decorations consist of belts, rectilinear panels, and/or punctates encircling the vessel. Vertically arranged thematic motifs reflect the structure of the cosmos in its simplest form: Below realm, Earth’s disk, Above realm. This article postulates that the Early Woodland decorative tradition was an enduring symbolic system shared by women making pottery in the upper Midwest. Cosmograms in pottery motifs trace three universal metaphors of the Woodland era belief system: (1) Cooking vessels were feminine spirit-beings; (2) the Woodland culinary vessel shaped like the female form represented her biological destiny as the reproductive vessel for humankind and cooking was a ritual action (“prayer”), a metaphor for the creation of new members of society; (3) the cooking pot was a mandala of cosmograms expressing daily life, ritual practice, and cosmology. These themes carry through subsequent studies on Middle Woodland Havanoid and Late Woodland corded or trailed pottery in an upcoming book.
上中西部陶器宇宙图装饰统一理论:第一部分:早期林地时期
利物浦早期林地(黑砂变体)陶器装饰由环绕器皿的带、直线板和/或点状物组成。垂直排列的主题图案以最简单的形式反映了宇宙的结构:低于领域,地球的圆盘,高于领域。这篇文章假设早期林地的装饰传统是一个持久的象征系统,由中西部上游的妇女共同制作陶器。陶器图案中的宇宙图追溯了伍德兰时代信仰体系的三个普遍隐喻:(1)炊具是女性的精神存在;(2) 形状像女性的伍德兰烹饪器皿代表了她作为人类生殖器皿的生物命运,烹饪是一种仪式行为(“祈祷”),隐喻着社会新成员的创造;(3) 锅是一个曼陀罗的宇宙图表达日常生活,仪式实践和宇宙观。在即将出版的一本书中,这些主题贯穿了对中伍德兰哈瓦那陶器和晚伍德兰绳纹或拖尾陶器的后续研究。
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