What is it?
Context/Use
When?
Indigenous Peoples
Vocabulary
100

The monolith shown here was found on the Huitzilopochtli side of this temple.

What is the Templo Mayor?

100

The plan of the city of Cuzco is said to resemble this animal.

What is a puma?

100

This is the century when this Transformation Mask was made.

What is the 19th Century?

100

This major Indigenous People are also known as the Mexica.

Who are the Aztecs?

100

This ruler's headdress is made by amanteca, craftspeople who specialized in working with this material.

What are feathers?

200

This is the Lanzon Stele at this Peruvian complex.

What is Chavín de Huántar?

200

Kwakwaka’wakw wore these during potlatches, ceremonies where the host displayed his status, in part by giving away gifts to those in attendance

What are Transformation Masks?

200

This Sun Stone, or Calendar Stone, shown here, is believed to have been made during this span of years. (Name any year in the range.)

What is roughly 1502–20?

200

This Indigenous people is known for artfully building walls using irregular shaped stones that fit perfectly together. 

Who are the Inkans?

200

The lintel shown here depicts this important sacrificial ritual.

What is bloodletting?

300


What is black-on-black ceramic vessel (by Maria Martinez)?

300

This is what happened to the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, like Cliff Palace, within 100 years of their construction.

What is they were abandoned?

300

This is when this bandolier bag was made.

What is 1840-1850?

300

This Indigenous group made the complex shown here.


Who are the Mayans?

300

The city of Cuzco and the temple complex in Tenochtitlan are both examples of this two-word phrase, which is sometimes described as being "the navel of the universe."

What is axis mundi?

400

Shown here is the curved wall of this main temple at Cuzco.

What is Qorikancha?

400

The All-T’oqapu tunic was likely intended for a royal mostly for this reason. 

What is the whole tunic is covered by T'oqapu?

400

The Great Serpent Mound is believed to have been made sometime around this year.

What is c. 1070?

400

Though found buried much later in Tenochtitlan, the mask shown here actually comes from this older Indigenous group.

Who are the Olmecs?

400

These round subterranean rooms were central to Ancestral Puebloans in both ceremonial and residential ways?

What are kivas?

500

This stone in particular...

What is the Intihuatana Stone?

500

The Great Serpent Mound in the Ohio River Valley is believed to have been constructed shortly after an appearance by this famous celestial body.

What is Halley's Comet?

500

Yaxchilán was made around this year.

What is 725 CE?

500

The bandolier bag (or lenape) shown here was made by a member of this Indigenous people after they were displaced to Oklahoma. 

What is the Delaware tribe?

500

The maize cob sculpture shown here was created using this metalworking technique.

What is repoussé?

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