North America Flashcards
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Mesa-Verde cliff dwelling
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- Ancestral Puebloan
- Montezuma County, Colorado
- sandstone and adobe
- abandoned after 1300
- town under cliff edge
- defendable, ladders
- interconnected rooms
- painted geometric rooms
- kiva - round underground rooms used for rituals (sacred) had vents and fire pit
- water collection rooms
2
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Great Serpent Mound
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- Mississipian Culture
- Adams County, Ohio
- earthwork, effigy mound
- organized community
- religious purposes
- burials near it
- many mounds destroyed, rare survivor
- head and tail aligned with solstices
- follows the hill contour
- 1300 ft long
3
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Bandolier Bag
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- Lenape (Delaware tribe)
- Eastern woodlands
- beadwork on leather
- European influence
- bandolier - ammunition bag
- European trade (silk and beads)
- utilitarian object
- ununiform straps
- labor intensive
4
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Transformation Mask
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- Kwakwaka’wakw
- Northwest coast of Canada
- wood, paint, and string
- worn at a dancing potlatch festival
- spirit inside wearer
- passed on through family
5
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Painted Elk Hide
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- Eastern Shoshone
- Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
- painted elk hide
- Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody)
- made for white tourists
- modern pigments
- shows ritual and ceremony dance
- painted bison
- horse riders with bow and arrows
6
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black-on-black ceramic vessel
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- Tewa, Puebloan
- San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico
- blackware ceramic
- Maria and Julian Martinez
- sold to white people
- art deco influence (modern)
- baked to be black
- signed by Maria and the community
