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