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ARH145H test 1
Native American Art History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anasazi | Bowl - mostly closed, geometric designs, black and white (usually) |
| Mimbres | Bowl - open, ceremonial, animal designs, kill hole! used for burial |
| Hohokam | Pithouses and platform mounds, sophisticated irrigation system, ceremonial ball courts (influence from Mexico, syncretic) |
| Zuni | Deer in the house design, rosettes. Pottery. |
| Hopi | Sikyatki style (discovered, revived early 1900s) by Nampeyo. Kachinas. |
| Acoma | Lucy Lewis - pottery. Intricate geometric black & white repeating patterns. Contemporary-ish? 1898-1992 |
| Apache | Basket weaving |
| Casa Rinconada | Kiva in Chaco Canyon, aligned with cardinal directions. Probably the site of major ceremonies. |
| Navajo | Weavings! Different phases, different styles. Vegetal and natural dyes. |
| Chaco Canyon | Northwestern New Mexico, Pueblo/Chacoan people |
| Fajada Butte | In Chaco Canyon, sun daggers align with sun on solstices. Act as calendar, way to mark time |
| Fransiscans | Involved in Pueblo revolt |
| Kachinas | Made only by men, given only to girls (except cradle dolls) 3 kinds. Hopi. |
| Kill Hole | In Mimbres pottery, used for burial |
| Koshare | Sacred 'clowns' almost, Roxanne Swentzell |
| Parfleche | Rawhide bag |
| Po'pay | Leader of Pueblo Revolt 1680 - shown with knotted rope (used to count down days) |
| Pueblo Bonito | In Chaco Canyon, most celebrated, largest and best known GREAT HOUSE |
| Pueblo Revolt 1680 | August 10, 1680, Po'pay and Pueblos drove away Fransiscans and priests, kept them away for 12 years |
| San Ildefonso black/black pottery | Maria Martinez. Black on black designs, very popular, she started signing her name to others' work to help them sell it |
| Shaman/shamanism | Sacred medicine man, could travel through the worlds/dimensions to bring back wisdom and healing powers. Used drums with designs. |
| Sipapu | Hole in the bottom of a kiva where the spirits would come through from other worlds |
| Syncretic | Blend of 2+ different cultural styles. Examples: matachines dance, squash blossom, cosmic tree (christianity) |
| Trickster | Clever, caused chaos. Raven and Coyote (raven much smarter than coyote) |
| Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian | in NM, founded by Mary Wheelwright and Hosteen Klah |
| Winter count | One of the ways of keeping records (also - time ball, oral history) |
| World tree/cosmic tree | connects all the worlds - heavens, earth, spirit world. ties to christianity (syncretic) |
| Kiva | partially subterranean, used in ceremonies. Niches, cutouts, sipapu |
| Hogan | Male (forked-pole, simpe) and female (6 or 8 sided, East entrance) form. Now ceremonial, used to be for living. |
| Pit house | Like Kiva but used for living, not ceremonies |
| Platform mound | Hohokam. mound used to support a structure or activity |
| Pueblo | community |
| Marcus Amerman | Contemporary Choctaw bead and glasswork artist |
| Hosteen Klah | 1920s, was a man but lived as a woman, blended male and female artwork and was the first to do so. Sandpaintings + weavings |
| Lucy Lewis | Acoma, intricate black/white designs of pottery |
| James Luna | Contemporary multimedia artist |
| Maria Martinez | San Ildefonso, black/black pottery, early 1900s, signed name to other work |
| Nampeyo | Hopi, helped revive sikyatki style pottery |
| Diego Romero | contemporary artist, potter, does native-influenced pop art on his pottery |
| Roxanne Swentzell | sculptor, known for koshares |
| Acquisition of artifacts: | trade, purchase, gift, violence, theft |
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Kristinaguice
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