Acknowledgements 
Permission to quote from various publications by the following individuals and in- 
stitutions is gratefully acknowledged: 
Dr. James B. Griffin and Peabody Museum at Harvard University for quotation from 
eabody Museum Papers, Vol. 25, 1951, Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi 
Alluvial Valley, 194l-47 and to Dr. Stephen Williams for expediting this approval. 
Dr. Carl H. Chapman and the University of Missouri Press for quotation from his 
The Archaeology of Missouri, 1. 
Dr. Lawrence Mills for quotation from his article on Head Vases in Vol. 30 of 
The Missouri Archaeologist. 
Dr. Charles C. DiPeso for quotation from a personal letter. 
Thanks are due to Mrs. Eleanor Chapman for permission to reproduce her drawing of 
the dancing figure on a copper plate from Etowah Mounds and to David R. Evans for 
photograph of the burial with a mace at the Lilbourn site in New Madrid County, 
Missouri. 
Thanks are also due to Jan Godfrey, Claudia Mink, Karen Corley and Lynn Kratzer 
of the Museum’s staff for editorial assistance, to Karen Corley for layout work and 
Lynn Kratzer and Karen Zimmerman for typing. 
