Indigenous America Flashcards
“Powhatan’s Mantle”
Type: cloack, wall hanging
Materials/Techniques: leather, shell, sinew
Creator/Culture: Algonquin/Chesapeake Bay Region, VA
Date/Period: ca. 1600-38
Repository: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
War Record
Type: record, figural drawing
Materials/Techniques: pigment, leather
Creator/Culture: Mandan/North Dakota region
Date/Period: ca. 1800
Repository: Museé du Quai Branly, Paris, France
“Ledger” Drawing
Type: work on paper
Materials/Techniques: pigment, paper
Creator/Culture: No Two Horns/Hunkpapa Lakota/North Dakota region
Date/Period: early 20th century
Repository: ?
Pot
Type: vessel
Materials/Techniques: white-slipped polychrome, clay
Creator/Culture: Nampeyo/Hopi-Tewa/Arizona region
Date/Period: ca. 1905
Repository: ?
Photo of Hasteen Klah with “Yeibichai” Rugs
Type: rugs, textile, tapestry
Materials/Techniques: woven ?
Creator/Culture: Navajo
Date/Period: photo ca. 1930
Style: after sand paintings
Repository: ?
Presentation Basket with Spanish Motifs
Type: vessel
Materials/Techniques: sumac, rushes, mud dye
Creator/Culture: Ana Maria Marta/Chumash
Date/Period: 1822
Repository: ?
Man’s Painted Coat and Leggings
Type: clothing
Materials/Techniques: caribou hide, pigment, fish roe
Creator/Culture: Naskapi Inuu/Quebec region
Date/Period: ca. 1840
Repository: ?
Carved walrus tusk
Type: decorative
Materials/Techniques: carved walrus ivory
Creator/Culture: Happy Jack/Iñupiaq/Alaska region
Date/Period: ca. 1900
Repository: National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC
War helmet/clan hat
Type: ceremonial, military, sacred
Materials/Techniques: carved wood, pigment
Creator/Culture: Tlingit/Northwest Coast region
Date/Period: mid-19th century
Repository: ?
Bracelet
Type: jewelry, adornment, potlatch
Materials/Techniques: chased silver
Creator/Culture: Charles Edenshaw/Haida/British Columbia region
Date/Period: ca. 1900
Repository: ?
