Chavín de Huántar (plan, Lanzón Stela, Relief Sculpture, & Nose Ornament)
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- Date/Period: 900-200 BCE Indigenous Americas
- Location/Culture: Peru
- Materials: Low relief granite, hammered gold alloy
- Function: Religious Temple
- Content/Context: A large cerimonial center that was a place to attend or participate in rituals, oracle, or enter a cult.
- Stylistics: It was an open-air space, with a circular plaza that had yellow pillow shapped yellow floor tiles with a black tile line going from west to east and walls of cut stone. It contained an old temple that was an inward facing structure with passageways around the circular courtyard. The old temple also contained an obelisk and stone monuments.
- Influence/Connection: Influenced religious temples prior to this.
Mesa Verde, Cliff Dwellings
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- Date/Period: 450-1300 CE Indigenous Americas
- Location/Culture: Montezuma County, Colorado, USA
- Materials: Sandstone
- Function: (Anasazi) Domestic architecture
- Content/Context: This was housing that was built in shallow caves under rock overhangs along canyon walls, it was home to around 100 people each.
- Stylistics: The Cliff dwellings contained alcoves, they were puebloan style, towers, pit-houses, and kivas. It was hard sandstone, held together with adobe mortar.
- Influence/Connection: Pueblos
Yaxhcilán (structure 40, 30, & Lintel 25, structure 23)
Great Serpent Mound
Tenochtitlan (Main Temple, Coyoxauhqui stone, calendar stone, & Olmec-style mask)
Date/Period: 1375- 1520 Indigenous Americas
Location/Culture: Modern Mexico City Materials: Volcanic stone masonry, jadeite mas, basalt calendar Function: (Aztec) civic compound with temples Content/Context:
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Silver and Gold Maize Cobs
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- Date/Period: 1400-1533 CE Indigenous Americas
- Location/Culture: Peru
- Materials: Gold and Silver alloy sheet metal repousee
- Function: Inca religious item
- Content/Context: The Inca's manufactured sheet metal which helped them cover the cobs. This was a special object to the Inca's and was used for both sacrificial and decorative purposes. Only three examples are known to exist
- Stylistics: Realistic, naturalistic, old, and rustic.
- Influence/Connection: based off South African objects of religion and decoration.
Ruler's Feathered Headdress (Probably Motechuzoma II)
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City of Cusco, Peru (city plan, curved wall of Qorikancha & Chuch of San Domingo, Walls at Saqsa Wamen)
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- Date/Period: 1440 CE Indigenous Americas
- Location/Culture: Central Highlands, Peru
- Materials: Sandstone
- Function: Architectural complex and civic dwelling
- Content/Context: This was the site of the Inca Empire.
- Stylistics: Decorated with over 700 sheets of gold, at one point it contained silver and gold statues, a giant gold disk, life-sized statues, it was highly decorated and it's doorways were trapezoidal.
- Influence/Connection:Macchu Picchu
City of Machu Picchu, Peru (aerial view, observatory & Intihuatana stone)
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All-T'oqapu Tunic
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- Date/Period: 1450-1540 Indigenous Americas
- Location/Culture: Inca, Peru
- Materials: camlid fiber and cotton
- Function: clothing
- Content/Context: This was reserved for the use of the Inca kings as the royal symbol of unity. The tunic broadcasts message that the "ruler controls the non-diversity and ethnicity". They were also created by sacred female weavers.
- Stylistics: Woven from alpaca wool, then dyed, spun and woven into cloth. Abstract patterns rather than naturalism. It contains a stepped pattern, with checkered colorization.
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Bandolier Bag
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- Date/Period: 1850 CE Indigenous America
- Location/Culture: Lenape Tribe, Delaware, USA
- Materials: bead work on leather
- Function: utilitarian and ritual accessory
- Content/Context: This was considered an object of prestige, it was used mostly by prestigious men but were sometimes worn by older women. They were mainly made by women even though they were used in men's ceremonial outfits and multiple bags were often worn at the same time.
- Stylistics: heavily beaded with an opening at the top. there is a beaded strap and hip rest, it is a typical tribal floral design
- Influence/Connection:European soldier bags and glass beads.
Transformation Mask (open and closed view)
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- Date/Period: 1850 CE Indigenous Americas
- Location/Culture: Kwakiult , Northwest Coast of Canada
- Materials: carved wood, paint, and string
- Function: ritual masks
- Content/Context: Based off myth that people were able to transform into animals when they wore the masks while participating in the ritual. As they danced, they began to transform into the animal on the mask.
- Stylistics: bold designs, using traditional and basic techniques. The designs were abstract and included the crest of the family it belonged to.
- Influence/Connection: religious ceremonial masks
Hide Painting
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- Date/Period: 1890-1900 CE Indigenous Americas
- Location/Culture: Eastern Shoshone Wind River Reservation, WY, USA
- Materials: painted ell hide
- Function: ritual
- Content/Context: This depicts the "sun dance", it is a tradition of the Great Plains people to record important events, such a dances and battles. The dance is being performed to thank their deity.
- Stylistics: static poses, contains many scenes, colorful figures and both human and animal figures.
- Influence/Connection: painted banner
Black-on-Black Ceramic Vessel
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- Date/Period: 1950 CE Indigenous Americas
- Location/Culture: New Mexico, USA
- Materials: black ware ceramic
- Function: utilitarian
- Content/Context: The Martinez's were a married couple who were potters, they created this vessel. It is made from a red pottery to a high polish. They used black slip and negative technique, they also used an oxygen reduced technique.
- Stylistics: All black with geometric patterns, with a smooth/glossy finish. It is narrower at the top while wider in the middle with a small base. It is completely surrounded by design.
- Influence/Connection: Diplyon funerary vases