PEOPLES
Seventeen huge stone ruler heads have been found, all made by this ancient people of Mexico.
OLMEC
The decapitated bodies of women that were sacrificed at the Templo Mayor were rolled down the steps to land on this round object, which also depicted a mutilated female figure.
The COYOLXAUHQUI Stone
The Intihuatana Stone or “Hitching Post of the Sun” was used for rituals in honor of the sun god at this site that was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911.
MACHU PICCHU
The convent of Santo Domingo in Cuzco is built on top of the remains of this gold-lined temple.
The QORICHANKA
It was the title of the emperor of the Inca.
SAPA INKA
He was the last emperor of the Aztecs.
MOCTEZUMA II
The original version of the Virgin of Guadelupe was made using this technique involving mother of pearl and small shells.
ENCONCHADO
The bandolier bags were made by women of this tribe, which had its origins on the East Coast, but were pushed all the way to Kansas and Oklahoma.
DELAWARE
This animal is believed to shoot lightning from its eyes and make thunder by flapping its wings. It features in Kwakwakwakw iconography.
THUNDERBIRD
When Cortez arrived in Mexico, he was identified as this feathered serpent god of the wind.
QUETZALCOATL
The feathered headdress of Moctezuma II is still on display in the Weltmuseum in this city.
VIENNA, Austria
Don’t call the inhabitants of Mesa Verde by this term, which means “enemy ancestors” in Navajo and is rejected by the Pueblo.
ANASAZI
During most of Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spain was ruled by this man, a Hapsburg of Joanna the Mad, who was also Holy Roman Emperor.
CHARLES V
The designs on Maria Martinez’s black on black pottery are made using this material, which is basically watered down clay.
SLIP
Maria Martinez was a member of this people whose name is Spanish for “village.”
PUEBLO
This pre-Incan site in Peru include the Old Temple, decorated with carvings of jaguars and caimans. Other features include the Round Plaza and an anthropomorphic stele with animal features.
CHAVIN DE HUANTAR
It has snakes for hair and tusks in its mouth, and is carved as a stele with the cross section of a lozenge, and located in the middle of the Old Temple at Chavin de Huantar.
The LANZON
This city in southern Mexico became powerful city during the reign of Shield Jaguar III.
YAXCHILAN
Derived from a Nuu Chal Nulth word meaning “to give away”, this was a gift-giving ceremony with ritual dances using transformation masks among the Kwakwakwakw and other PNW peoples. It was outlawed by the Canadian government.
POTLATCH
Pull a thorn-rope through your tongue, lose a lot of blood, and you could see a vision serpent like this Mayan queen, the wife of Shield Jaguar III.
LADY XOOK
Before Cotsiogo coud paint an elk hide, it first had to be prepared by this process using chromium salt or the bark of certain trees to make animal skin into leather.
TANNING
This civilization heaped up the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio.
The FORT ANCIENT people
Until 1935, the US government banned this ritual practiced by the Shoshone and depicted by the artist Cotsiogo on a painted elk hide.
The SUN DANCE
This god dismembered his sister and vanquished her 400 brothers to become the chief god of the Aztecs, symbolized by the hummingbird.
HUITZILOPOCHTLI
Founded where an eagle was eating a serpent while perched on a cactus, it is located in the same dry lakebed as modern Mexico City, and was the capital of the Aztecs.
TENOCHTITLAN
This is the term for a round gathering room with a fire pit in Mesa Verde.
KIVA
This founder of the Inca empire built the Qorichanka and Machu Picchu.
PACHACUTI
The cliff palace at Mesa Verde was built using stone and bricks made of this rammed-earth material.
ADOBE
The world’s tallest totem pole is located in Alert Bay, and was made by this people of the Pacific Northwest and northern Vancouver Island.
KWAKWAKWAKW
These reclining statues at the top of the Templo Mayor have a shocked expression and hold round bowls for the organs of sacrificial victims.
CHACMOOLS
He is the lesser of the two gods to whom humans were sacrificed at the Templo Mayor, a jaguar god with power over rain.
TLALOC
DAILY DOUBLE
The most impressive Mesoamerican pyramids lined the Avenue of the Dead in this city that flourished around 500 AD.
DAILY DOUBLE
It’s the hole in the earth through which the spirits of ancestors are thought to emerge in Puebloan rituals. The Gand Canyon is where the largest one is said to be located.
The temple complex at Yaxchilan was finished under the reign of this Mayan ruler, the son of Shield Jaguar III and Lady Eveningstar.
BIRD JAGUAR (IV)
Moctezuma’s headdress is made of 400 tail feathers from Pharomachrus moccino, the scientific name for this tropical bird.
QUETZAL