For hundreds of years before Europeans arrived in the New World, Native Americans of what is now the southeastern United States had a unique culture. They built villages with great ceremonial centers, where huge mounds of earth served as platforms for temples and houses and burial places for their dead, and they created works of art that were among the finest in North America.

In The Art of the Southeastern Indians, Shirley Glubok explores the distinctive art of these people, some of whom we know as the Timucua, Calusa, Caddo, Creek, Natchez and Choctaw. Highlighted in this handsome volume are spectacular prehistoric wood carvings, stone figurines, pottery, pipes, copper ornaments and engraved shells, many of which were buried in the mounds. Also included are ceremonial masks, baskets and dolls created by modern Cherokee, Chitimacha and Seminole.

This companion volume to The Art of the Southwest Indians, The Art of the Northwest Coast Indians, The Art of the Plains Indians and The Art of the Woodland Indians vividly portrays the artistic heritage of another major group of Native Americans and reveals the richness and diversity of their culure.

From the dust jacket