[Aztlan] FW: Solped Foreheads

[Diehl, Richard]

Hola Listeros,
 
I forwarded Kat Reece's message about a display at Moundville Archaeological Park to Bill Bomar, the Park Director. Here is his response. By the way, the construction he mentions is a complete renovation of the museum at the Park.
 
Saludos,
Dick Diehl

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From: Bill Bomar [mailto:bbomar at bama.ua.edu]
Sent: Thu 5/15/2008 3:23 PM
To: Diehl, Richard
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Solped Foreheads



Dick,

Good to hear from you. We do have one case that discusses headboarding and
it used to have Moundville skulls with sloped foreheads on exhibit. The
statement below by Kat Reece, "they had a headboard in their museum that had
been found on site" is not true. There is, however, a rendering of one
painted on the back of this case.

By the way, we start construction July 1, so this will be removed shortly.

Thanks,
Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Diehl, Richard" <rdiehl at as.ua.edu>
To: "Bill Bomar" <bbomar at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 4:28 PM
Subject: FW: [Aztlan] Solped Foreheads


>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Do you know anything about this? I was not ware of it.
> Dick
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org on behalf of Katherine Reece
> Sent: Mon 5/12/2008 11:33 AM
> To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
> Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Solped Foreheads
>
>
>
>
>
>> Listeros:           While browsing threw a book of North Americans Indian
>> Tribes I noticed a painting of a Pacific Northwest Cowlitz Warrior with a
>> child in a basket with a piece of wood tied to his head so that the
>> forehead would be sloped as his was. I have seen the same appearance in
>> Mayan drawings and read stories about them. Was this practice common in
>> the Americas?                Mario F. Malo
>>
>
>
> While visiting the Alabama Moundville Archaeological Park last year
> http://moundville.ua.edu/ I noticed that they had a headboard in their
> museum that had been found on site.  I'd be interested in a couple of
> references to papers on North American headboards and how wide spread
> their
> use was.
>
> Kat Reece
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