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A Visual History of Etowah Told through Indigenous Imagery

Recorded April 22, 2025 Michael C. Carlos Museum The Etowah site today is a state park, but 650 years ago it was an Indigenous city with impressive monuments and beautiful art. Adam King reconstructs the city’s 500-year history using imagery created by its inhabitants, including motifs on pottery, designs on decorated shell and copper, and the arrangement of buildings and monuments. Unlike typical archaeological evidence, imagery was intentionally created to communicate ideas. King explores what Etowah’s inhabitants understood about themselves and their city, connecting ancient visual expression to contemporary Indigenous perspectives. Speaker: Adam King is a research associate professor at the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. His work focuses on Southeastern archaeology, Indigenous visual culture, and interpreting ancient imagery to understand belief, identity, and social organization. Exhibition: This talk draws from the exhibition This Land Calls Us Home, which was displayed in Woodruff Library and featured the work of 25 contemporary Native American artists and designers conveying personal and collective relationships with ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States. The exhibition was originally conceptualized by Mekko Chebon Kernell, an ordained Elder in the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference, and curated at the Carlos Museum by Miranda Kyle, Curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas, who oversaw artist selection, re-installation, and associated items from the Rose collections. Made possible by the Grace Welch Blanton Lecture Fund. Keywords & Tags: Etowah, Indigenous imagery, Southeastern archaeology, Native American history, Native American art, pottery motifs, decorated shell, copper designs, monument arrangement, cultural identity, Adam King, This Land Calls Us Home, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Grace Welch Blanton Lecture, Indigenous visual culture, ancestral homelands Hashtags: #Etowah #IndigenousImagery #NativeAmericanHistory #Archaeology #ThisLandCallsUsHome #CarlosMuseum #CulturalHeritage #AdamKing #NativeAmericanArt #SoutheasternArchaeology Image Credit: Kåre Thor Olsen. Description=Mound B at the archaeological site Etowah Indian Mounds in Georgia, USA |Source=self-made |Date=21 April 2007 |Author= User:Kaare License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... No changes were made to the image, only elements added around it.