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Cultures north of the present-day US/Mexico border are divided by this structure.
What is geographical location?
This two-temple pyramid stands at what was once the heart of the Mexica Empire.
What is Templo Mayor or the Main Temple, Tenochtitlan, Mexico City?
The Painted Elk Hide shows this dance that was banned by the US government in 1935.
What is the Sun Dance?
This culture is revered for its stonemasonry.
Who are the Inka?
Artist: Black on black terracotta
Who is Maria and Julian Martinez, 1939?
The culture that quickly expanded throughout the Andes mountains in the late 15th and early 16th C.
What is the Inka?
Lintel 25 from Structure 33 at Yaxchilan depicts this traditional spiritual ritual.
What is hallucination from bloodletting?
The four clans of the Kwakwaka'wakw people.
What are the Killer Whale, the Raven, the Eagle and the Wolf?
This monolith was created in situ. It is incised with the image of a god that is part human, part jaguar.
What is the Lanzon Stele?
Location: Transformation masks
Where is the Northwest Coast, 19th C.?
This common characteristic of Indigenous American art involves using materials from other cultures.
What is the use of trade materials?
Architectural feature of a traditional Mayan temple that is made of stone lattice.
What is the roof comb?
Inspired by contact with Europeans, the Lenape created this beaded garment.
What is the Bandolier Belt?
The Golden Garden was located on the grounds of this Inka Temple to the Sun God and included a metal field of maize.
What is Qorikancha?
Culture: Mesa Verde
Who are the Anasazi, 450-1300?
The reason for the image on the Mexican flag.
Huitzilopochtli told the Mexica people to travel until they saw 'an eagle perched on a cactus with a snake in its mouth.'
This artifact demonstrates that the Mexica revered past cultures, including this 'mother culture' of Mesoamerica.
What is the Olmec mask?
A ceremony in which the host gave gifts to the guests to demonstrate social status within the clan.
What is the Potlatch?
With two floating snake heads on either side this gold facial ornament was worn on this part of the body to transform the wearer.
What is the nose or septum?
Location: Great Serpent Mound
Where is present-day Ohio, 1070?
First Nations people were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands through this law.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
What is Huitzilopochtli's birth story?
He beheaded his sister (Coyolxauhqui) for killing their mother (Coatlique). He then killed their 400 brothers. He threw them into the sky; Coyolxauhqui becomes the moon, brothers become the stars.
Both Cotsiogo and Maria Martinez used their traditional artistic skills to do this.
What is to support their communities on the reservation by creating work that appealed to tourists?
Two ways that the All T-oqapu Tunic demonstrated the power of the Sapa Inka.
What are might (based on the inclusion of the military t'aqapu) and imperial control of goods (based on the use of fine threads and bright colors)?
Artist: Painted Elk Hide
Who is Cotsiogo or Cadzi Cody, 19th C.?