Anonymous: a Leaf from the Codex Borgia (pre 16th century) folded out like an accordion; about 26 ft long. abstract; broad color; meant to look flat. decorative quality through abstraction
Anonymous: The Art of Featherworking illustrated in the Florentine Codex, 1570 western atmosphere influenced; aslo influenced by roman/greece architecture the colorful feathers & symbols on the side of the tale/desk are flat. symbols on the side of table represent something that only the indigenous people could understand man in portrait has shading that shows he is was meant to be …show more content…
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La Virgencita del Nuevo Mundo (The Virgin of the New World) c.1521-1540 goddess of bells, goddess of feathers; combined = means joining of religions being pushed upon.
The virgin’s mouth is opened, which is unusual in this type of art b/c the virign mary’s mouth is usually closed which indicates that she is always listening & never talking
Art of the United States: Art of the Indigenous Americas (Week 1, Part 2 of 2)
Archaic Culture, West of the Mississippi-> map of Ancient America with Poverty Point, Louisiana c. 1500 BCE.
Reconstruction of ceremonial enclosure, Poverty Point, Louisiana, C. 1500 BCE- Drawing of “Bird mound” at Poverty Point. bird mound rises above over 70 ft found traces and objects that suggests items were not from the plaza.
Hopewell Culture; Woodland Area present day Ohio.
Falcon-shaped copper cut-out, 200 BCE-1BC Mound City National Monuments; buried with the more elite
Raven-effigy platform pipe Rutherford Mound, Illinois 200 BCE-200 CE it is important to have the providence of an object so that we know where/when the object came from. great craftsmanship; often gifts to the dead. raven is/was a trickster
Mississippian Culture; Site, Moundville (Alabama)
Heilbrunn timeline http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=06®ion=na
Falcon Pipe, Moundville, Alabama, 1250-1300 CE
-two layering of feathers; elegance of lines, incorporate symbolic animal & rock; used for religious beliefs
Wood-duck effigy bowl Moundville Alabama, 1250-1300 CE
-duck is carved out of extremely hard stone, incised lines in eyes, along neck & beak.
Spiro: Mask with Antlers; Spiro Mound, Oklahoma, 1200-1350 CE item of status, was painted; used in spiritual world to wish good hunting.
Portrait of the Ruler Pak’al of Palenque, Pre-Columbian Art, Mayan Culture C 683 A.D.
-the image commemorates Pak’al’s role as the axis mundi, uniting the three levels of the universe. engraved shell cup (“birdman”) spiro mounds, Oklahoma c 1300 CE
-nicknamed the bird man because engraved in the shell, there is a man who looks like he’s in a bird costume; feathers & spread arms cahokia mounds; another Mississippi cultural site
Female figurine tilling the jaguar serpent earth (“Birger figurine”), found in Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, c1100 CE
-a woman who is hoeing the ground is also petting/touching a serpent which is wrapped around her; could mean that woman are in touch with mother nature.
The Pueblo Cultures- Chaco Canyon
Pueblo Bonita in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
-honeycomb structures built around a ceremonial area; some did not have windows, but were about 7 stories high.
-built with timber, timber was located about 50 miles away.
door alignments, the sun shined a certain way & you could see certain things with the sunlight.
Great Kiva, Near Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon. term: kiva- term: matrilineal: passes through the woman's line term: matrilocal: man moves into the woman’s home rather then in today’s cultures where the woman moves into the man’s home. anonymous, hopi; mural of Kokopelli and Kokopell Mana (early 15th century) plastered on a wall. flat.
Detail of a Kiva painting (late 15th-early 16th century)(Anasazi, NM)
Mimbres Culture painted clay bowls, abstract patters, the cross between animals & humans all these bowls have holes in the middle of the bowl. “navel”. items were found stacked on top of one another.
The Northeast: Native American Life small communities intricate alliances & trade Horticulture, fishing, & hunting the huron town of hochelaga, c.1535
The Mohawk town of Caughnawaga (“Sault St. Louis”) on the St. Lawrence River, c. 1750.
Huron: Wampum belt commemorating the Four Nations of the Huron
1.45 Attributed fo Frere Luc (Claude Francois): France bringing the Faith to the Indians of New France, c.1675.
-oil on canvas, 86 x 86 in. (218.4 x 218.4 cm.) Musee des Ursulines,
Quebec
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Anonymous, from southwestern Quebec: painted caribou-skin coat, c1700
1.46 anonymous: altar cloth with the Holy Family (detail), before 1682
1.47 Anonymous, probably Quebec convent work: box,