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S.E.C.C. motifs have been found on a variety of non-perishable materials, including shell, pottery, carved stone and copper. Undoubtedly many other materials were also used, but haven’t survived the intervening centuries. It may be judged by looking at the remaining artifacts that S.E.C.C. practitioners worked with feathers and designs woven into cloth, practiced body painting, and possibly tattooing as well as having pierced ears. One surviving painting found on a baked clay floor at the Wickliffe Mounds site suggests they also painted designs in and on their dwellings. Paintings displaying S.E.C.C. imagery have also been found in caves, most notably Mud Glyph Cave in Tennessee. Animal images, serpents, and warrior figures occur, as well as winged warriors, horned snakes, stylized birds, maces, and arrows. Their location underneath the Earth probably reflect aspects of Mississippian myth and cosmology concerning the (perhaps sacred) precincts beneath the earth.
Artifacts in this section have been set aside from other aparel covered under that topic because of its relationship to ceremonial application.
Again, items that appear in this section are set apart from those that appear in earlier sections because of their ceremonial application.
These stone artifacts appear in both the ground stone section and here because for the sake of complete coverage.
