FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Contact:  Robert Preston, Jr.,
              912.260.4276
              robert.preston@sgc.edu

Frankie Snow to present ‘A World Engraved: Artwork of the Swift Creek Indians’

Tuesday Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. in the student union building at South Georgia College, Frankie Snow will present a program about the artwork of a group of Indians that lived in this area around 1,500 years ago.

Swift Creek Indians left a variety of their elaborate artwork on broken pieces of pottery that have been recovered from this region. Following over 35 years of study attempting to recover this art, more than 400 designs have been recorded. Included are a number of images that appear as human masks, birds, flowers, etc. These will be discussed in the context of known characters recorded in ethnographic accounts of historic Creek and Cherokee beliefs.

Snow‘s archaeological work has been widely published appearing in publications of the Smithsonian, Society for American Archaeology, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Society for Georgia Archaeology and numerous other books. The public is invited and there is no charge.
Snow is the Learning Services Coordinator at South Georgia College.
 

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