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North American Art

North American Art. Ancient North American Art. Identified as early as 10,000 b.c.e . Migratory hunters & agriculturalists Functional pottery and decorative objects Complex burial practices Textiles.

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North American Art

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  1. North American Art

  2. Ancient North American Art • Identified as early as 10,000 b.c.e. • Migratory hunters & agriculturalists • Functional pottery and decorative objects • Complex burial practices • Textiles

  3. Pipe from the Adena culture (Ohio), c. 500-1 BCE, stonea pose suggesting movement/ a gift to the dead

  4. Left: Effigy of a Human Hand, Hopewell site (Ross County, Ohio), 200 BCE-400 CE, muscovite micaBelow: Incised shell gorget (neck pendant), Mississippian, (Tennessee), c. 1250-1300

  5. Serpent Mound, Mississippian (Ohio), late 11th century

  6. effigy mounds/ the shape of a serpent

  7. Top left: Monks Mound of Cahokia, Mississippian culture (southern Illinois), c. 1150 CE Below left: Reconstruction of central CahokiaMonks Mound/ once the largest city in North America/ evidence of a walled enclosure/celestial orientation with a “woodhenge”

  8. Mimbres bowl (New Mexico), 900-1100 CE, ceramicMimbres valley/ “killing” of a bowl for burial

  9. “hand-built” bowls made without a wheel/ popular stylized motifs possibly based on personalized names

  10. Anasazi Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado), c. 1150-1300Anasazi pueblos/ multi-storied apartment dwellings in a protective cliff setting/ evidence of sudden abandonment

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