Art 4201 Studyguide 8: North America

ABW pp. 280-301; NWA pp. 194-225

 

Maps

Adena human effigy pipe. ABW 7.33

other views
Adena dog effigy pipe

Gorgets fr. Bartow County, Ga, Etowah. Miss. Culture. 1200-1400. Rattlesnake, sun motifs. 3”, 3 7/8” Carlos

Gorget, fr. Hamilton County Tenn. Incised shell. Falcon Man
Hiwassee River, Meigs Cty, Tenn. Shell gorget w. weeping eye design Miss. Culture: gorgets. Engraved. 900-1700. see also NWA 92, 94

Gorget from Tennessee, c. 1350-1500. double figures

Pierced gorget, shell
Mississippian shell gorget carved with crested woodpeckers, Tennessee Indiana Gorget

Chief Washakie wearing a gorget

Mississippian shell gorget with flying shaman
Hopewell artist. Mica in shape of human hand. Woodland period. 200BCE-400CE. 11 3/8” ABW 7.34 Mississsippian shell gorget carved and pierced. Shaman
 

 

Mica Bird Talon. Hopewell. 200BC-400CE
Miss. artist. Copper breastplate (drawing) Lake Jackson Flor. ABW 7.35 Mica Snake. Hopewell

Hopewell. Raven cut from sheet copper

Etowah. Copper Breastplate
Etowah human effigy jar. See NWA 95 Mississippian embossed copper face with weeping eye.
Woman and Child effigy bottle. Illinois. c. 1100 Mississippian human effigy pipe

Mississippian weeping human effigy vessel

 Etowah. effigy figures from mound. 2'H
Warrior. Oklahoma. 1100-1300 Effigy Pipe. Oklahoma. 1200-1350
Duck effigy jar. pre-1700 another view
Hopewell beaver effigy platform pipe. Pike County, Ill. 200 CE. pipestone, pearl bone. 14-16.

pipe from Miamisburg Ohio. 200BC-500CE

Blackfoot steatite pipe

Fr. Miamisburg Ohio. Stone pipe w. shell insets. 200BCE-500CE
Frog effigy pipe
Fr. Kaskaskia Ill. Beaver shaped carved wooden bowl. 1750-75. Fr. Kaskaskia Ill. Beaver shaped carved wooden bowl. 1750-75.

Eastern Woodlands (Fort Ancient culture): Serpent Mound. Adams Cty Ohioc. 1070. 1348’ L X20’W. NWA 91

Another view
Ohio: Mound city Complex plan Virginia, 1581: Algonquin village
Section, Adena Burial Mound reconstruction, plan, Adena lodge
Recosntruction Ontario: Draper village
Winnebago medicine lodge interior Winnebago lodge, Wisconsin

Eastern Woodlands: Miss. Per. 1000-1600. Monks Mound and palisade. Cahokia Mounds, Ill. Dirt.   100’ H X 710’W X 1080’L (14 acres) NWA 93

Cahokia Plan
Monks Mound, Cahokia reconstruction
Cahokia Reconstruction woodhenge, Cahokia
Blackfoot tepee Monks Mound, palisade reconstruction. 900-1250 NWA 93

Great Plains. Crow. Decorated tepee.

Plains: Blackfoot women raising tepee. 1900. Mont. 14-24

 

 

E. Woodlands. Iroquois. False face society  mask. 19th C. See NWA 103

Another, Onondaga, 1860

2 more, Seneca, Allegheny Reservation. 19th-20th C.

Another. Onondaga harvest mask

Great Doctor false face mask. Iroquois. NWA 103

Another “Old broken nose”. Onondaga

Innu artist. Hunter’s summer coat. Labrador Canada. C. 1805.  caribou skin, sinew, fish egg paint.  ABW7.36

Plains. Beaded fringed hide shirt
Mrs. Minnie Sky Arrow. Beaded dress. C. 1890. buckskin, glass beads. Ft. Peck Res. Mont.        ABW 7.49 Arapaho buckskin Ghost Dance shirt.

  Sioux beaded buffalo robe. c. 1870

Chiracua Apache painted deerskin, nd
Lakota Plains.  Young man afraid of his horse. 1880's Battle scene hide painting. Mandan, fr. ND. Tanned  buffalo hide, dyed porcupine quills, pigment. 7’10” X8’6” (Lewis & Clark expedition). 14-25
detail of Mandan buffalo hide

Woodlands/Plains. Delaware. shoulder pouch Fr. Kansas. Wool, cotton, thread, silk ribbon, glass beads. 23 X 7 Ύ”   c. 1860. 23-12  Seminole.

Shoulder bag, beads on buckskin. c. 1800-50

Plains. Crow cradle board. 40 ½” X 11”. C. 1900

Eastern Sioux. Baby Carrier. Upper Missouri Riv. 19th C. board, buckskin, quill. 31”L. 23-11
Beaded Kiowa cradles. Oklahoma. c. 1900. 8.12 Crow (Great Plains) shield with Bearl late 19th C.  NWA 104

Plains, Arapaho pntd shield. C. 1850. see NWA 104

Pueblo shield with bull head. Tesuque. c. 1850. 20"diam.
Mandan Chief Matotope. Litho. American Plains. 1840. ABW 7.46 Alexander de Batz. Desseins de sauvages de plusiers nations Nouvelles Orleans, 1735. col pen/ink sketch

George Catlin:  White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas: 1844

George Catlin: See non ty a,  Iowa Medicine Man. 1844

George Catlin: Pigeon’s Egg Head Going & Returning fr. Washington 1837-39 

George Catlin: Sioux Moving Camp.

Mortuary Poles & Houses. Skidegate.NW Pacific Coast. 1888. ABW 7.37

 

Council house 1899
NW Coast. Klart-Reech House interior. L. 19th C. ABW 7.38, NWA 102 Northwest Indian house interior 1799 drawing

Pacific NW Coast: Haida: totem poles, Thunder Park, BC. 20th copies

Pacific NW Coast: Haida: house post, Alaska
Portal Pole Haida totem poles, Victoria BC. 20th C

Hamats dancers, Canada. 1914

Pacific NW Coast: Haida: Box drum

Pacific NW Coast: Tlingit: carved bear house painted screen, 1840.

Pacific NW Coast: Tlingit: carved painted screen, 1840.
Haida House post

Tlingit crest detail, southeast Alaska

Pacific NW Coast: Tlingit: panel fr. House platform.

Pacific NW Coast: Heiltsuk bent-corner chest. C. 1860. cedar, paint

Tlingit Raven Screen. Alaska 1810

Pacific NW Coast: Tlingit: house post, carved, ptd cedar. 1850-1900
Kwakiutl Sistutl & Maiden (double-headed serpent of the sea totem). 1861

Pacific NW Coast: Tlingit: Mask: Spirit and Brown Bear. 1875

Pacific NW Coast: Sun Mask. Bef. 1897. 24 Ύ” Bella Coola
Ceremonial Mask Haida bird mask with moveable beak

Pacific NW Coast: Tlingit: Chilkat blanket. Bef. 1928. cedar bast, wild goat hair. 64”w. ABW 7.39

Tlingit effigy pipe.1825-50. walrus ivory, shell

Pacific NW Coast: Tlingit: Chilkat blanket. 18th C. Mtn. goat wool, shredded cedar bark.

Pacific NW Coast: Tlingit Chilkat ceremonial blanket. Mntn goat wool, shredded cedar bark. Mid 18th C.

 

Pacific NW Coast: Tlingit: det. Ceremonial blanket, 1850

 
Bill Reid. Wasco, Haida sea monster. carved and painted. UBC

Bil Reid Killer Whale. 1984. Bronze. 17'H. Vancouver Aquarium. ABW 1.5

Pacific NW Coast: Haida: bas-relief sculpture, fr. Q. Charlotte Isl. BC. 19th C.

 

 

Bill Reid. Spirit of the Haida Gwaii. 1991. bronze. 13 X 20’. Canadian Embassy. Wash DC.

SW US: Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon. New Mexico. 11th – 13th C. 2 views. See ABW 7.40

ruins
aerial view. 900-1250

ground level

interior room, doorway. Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon.

 reconstruction drawing Pueblo Bonita

Replica, wall pntng, Kiva III, Kuaua, NM. ABW 7.41

 

Chaco Canyon: Great Kiva, drawing.

Chaco Canyon: Great Kiva, restored.

Adobe pueblo unit. Drawing. AAT W12.1

 

Laura Gilpin photo

 

Taos Pueblo, NM. 16th C. 3 views. 23-19

Ansel Adams. Winnowing Grain, Taos Pueblo. 1929

SW: Anasazi Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, Colo. 1209-1270s. NWA 98.

3 more views
Kiva plan Kiva

SW Hopi. Maria and Julian Martinez. Blackware. 1942. 23-20. see NWA 100

SW Hopi. Maria and Julian Martinez. Blackware bowl w. father motif. 1934-43. Carlos.

SW Pueblo. Stone Mortar Martinez blackware.  NWA 100

Olla. Zuni Pueblo. Polychrome ware. Carlos. C. 1890

Hopi seed jar

San Ildefonso Pottery. Curtis photo

Zuni pots Edward Curtis photo.

Louisa Keysers, Nevada. Baskets. c. 1900 Leah Nampeyo. Hopi potter. ABW 7.43. c.1900

SW. Mogollon culture. Mimbres bowl w. human & bear design. 1000-1150. painted ceramic, killed. See NWA 97. 5 examples

 

Pomo. Hanging Basket. Fiber, beads, clam shell, abalone, feathers. 13’ diam. ABW 7.48

Pomo gift basket. 1900

 Pomo basket

Pomo wedding basket. Willow, bracket fern root, clamshell, trade beads, woodpecker & quail feathers. 5 ½” H. 12” diam.

Pomo storage basket

SW Navajo eyedazzler blanket. 1885-90

SW Navajo eyedazzler blanket. 1875-90. 7.45
SW Navajo chief blanket. 1885-90 SW Navajo eyedazzler blanket. 1900.
SW Navajo  blanket. serape style.1865-70
Anasazi Chaco. Human effigy jar. 900-1150 20th C. kachina dolls
Hopi Old Man (Wataka) kachina Mixed media AAT W12.3 Hopi or Zuni kachinas: Lightning, Corn, Snow & Hail

Hopi kachina dance, Shoughpave, Ariz. 1903.  ABW 7.42

Hopi Zuni Warrior kachina. C. 1930 18” H

Hopi Black Ogre kachina. Carved cottonweed. AAT W12.3

 Hopi Butterfly Maiden kachina. Carved cottonweed. AAT W12.4

Navajo sand painting. See ABW 7.44  AAT W27.8

Navajo Sand painting: Yei god. 20th C.

SW Navajo: Whirling  Logs ceremony. Sand painting tapestry.  NWA 101

SW Navajo: Whirling  Logs ceremony. Sand painting tapestry.  22-22

Legacy from North American art:

  

Wo-Haw.  Wo-Haw Between Two Worlds. 1875-77. 7.47

Pablit Velarde.  Koshares of Taos, fr. Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. WC. 1946-47. 23-21
Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds. Building Minnesota. 1990. detailABW 7.50

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.  Paper Dolls for Post-Columbian World, w. Ensembles contributed by the US Government.  Salish-Cree-Shoshone. 1991. Pastel, pen/paper
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.  Trade (Gifts for trading Land w. White People.  Salish-Cree-Shoshone. 1992. O & collage/c. 5’ X 14’2” 23-23.