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North America

North America. Effigy mound Mounds built in the forms of animals. Gorget Neck pendant. Eskimo Art. Stylistic characteristics of prehistoric Eskimo art: Abstract circles, curved lines, and animal faces (representing transformation) are common motifs, carved in shallow relief.

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North America

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  1. North America • Effigy mound • Mounds built in the forms of animals. • Gorget • Neck pendant

  2. Eskimo Art

  3. Stylistic characteristics of prehistoric Eskimo art: Abstract circles, curved lines, and animal faces (representing transformation) are common motifs, carved in shallow relief. Objects are always small due to the nomadic culture. Favorite material of Eskimo carvers? Was Walrus ivory. Burial Mask from Point Hope, Alaska ca. 100ivory9 1/2 in. wide

  4. Mississippian Art Ancestral Shrine Figure, 13th–14th century; MississippianMississippian peoples; TennesseeQuartz sandstone H. 26 1/2 in. (67.3 cm)

  5. Purpose of most of the Adena and Mississippian art objects: Gifts to the dead, to be taken into the afterlife. Pipe from a mound in Ohio ca 500-1 B.C.E.stone8 in. high

  6. Incised shell gorgetfrom Summer County, Tennessee ca. 1250-13004 in. wide

  7. The purpose for the construction of the mound: To represent or worship snakes, which were very important in Mississippian iconography. They were associated with the earth and fertility of crops. Because it is now thought to have been built in 1070, it may have been intended to mark the passage of Halley’s comet in 1066, in the form of the comet’s path across the night sky. The Adena culture which flourished in Ohio during the last several centuries BCE were thought to have built the mounds. Radiocarbon dating, however, now suggests it was built much later by a people known as Mississippians. Most extant objects from the Adena and Mississippian cultures were found in burial and temple mounds. The Serpent Mound, Ohio is among the best preserved temple mounds The mound is 1200 feet long Serpent Mound Adams County, Ohio ca. 10701200 ft. long, 20 ft. wide, 5 ft. high

  8. MimbresArt

  9. Characteristics of prehistoric pottery made by the Mimbres people: Black-on-white designs. Linear rhythms balanced and controlled with a clearly defined border. Method used to make this pottery was the coiling method. bowl with two cranes and geometric formsfrom New Mexico ca. 1250ceramic, black on whitediameter approximately 1 ft. 1/2 in.

  10. The Cliff Palace at Mesa Verdi was a sophisticated urban community located in a wide trade network. The location was not accidental. The dwellings were designed to take advantage of the sun to heat the pueblo in winter and shade it in summer. Cliff Palace at Mesa Verdi

  11. A kiva • A circular semi-subterranean structure, once roofed over and entered via ladder through a hole in the roof. • Purpose • They were and still are the spiritual centers of native Southwest life, male council houses where ritual regalia are stored and private rituals and preparations for public ceremonies take place.

  12. detail of Kiva painting from Kuaua Pueblo (Coranado State Monument) Anasazi, New Mexico late 15th to early 16th century

  13. Mictlantecuhtli and Quetzalcóatl illuminated page from the Borgia Codex from Puebla/Tlaxcala, Mexico ca. 1400-1500mineral and vegetable pigments on deerskinapproximately 10 5/8 in. x 10 3/8 in.

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