by Cyclone Covey, DFMES, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C. Originally published in The Midwestern Epigraphic Journal, Volume 20, 2006. Comments on: Lawrence F. Athy, “Foreign Influences on the Priesthood & Nobility of Precolumbian America,” ESOP XVII (1983), 106-120 & “Beards in North America Before Columbus,” XIX (1990), 169-175. THESE SEMINAL ARTICLES did Read More
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