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 |