Gardner Chapter 30

    NATIVE ARTS OF THE AMERICAS AFTER 1000


VOCABULARY AND IMAGES
codex (codices)
ashlar masonry
pueblo
Kachina dolls
blackware pottery
sand-painting

Aztec Culture
    http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/tm/pages2/mtm02.htm
Borgia Codex, Mictlantecuhtli and Quetzalcoatl, Puebla/Tlaxcala (?), Mexico, ca. 1400-1500

Huizilopochtli (not reproduced in textbook)

http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/tm/pages2/mtm34.htm 

*Coatlicue (She of Serpent Skirt; Mother Goddess), c. 1487-1520 

* Coyolxauhqui (She of the Bells; Moon Goddess), late 15th c.

http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/tm/Media/fig42z.jpg
 

Inka Empire 

*Machu Picchu, Peru, 15th-16th c.
http://ekeko.rcp.net.pe/peru/cusco/machupichu.html

North America

http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~rwj1/nativ.html 
http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~rwj1/kwa.html

Nightway: Whirling Logs, reproduction of Navajo sandpainting, before 1933.

*Otto Pentewa,  Katsina figurine (Kachina doll), Hopi, before 1959.

*Maria Montoya Martinez, Black-ware jar, c. 1939, San Ildefonso Pueblo, NM

Eagle transformation mask, Kwakiutl, late 19th c.

War helmet, Tlingit, collected 1888-93

Chilkat blanket, Tlingit, before 1928

 http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~rwj1/TLI/tli25g.html
 
Mask, Yupik Eskimo, Alsaka, early 20th c., wood and feathers

Julian Scott Ledger, Kiowa, 1880 (pencil, ink, colored pencil)

 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Describe the pantheon of Aztec dieties (Huitzilopochtli, Coatlicue, and Coyolxauhqui), and how the Aztec's worship of them is evident in the art and structures that they made. 

Discuss the sophisticated structure of Inka culture and give examples of the many objects and structures that contributed to it. 

How did Northwest Coast peoples identify with the animal spirits of their ancestors in daily life and in rituals? 

Describe the stylization of animal emblems in Tlingit objects.