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The Pacific Islands include the continent of Australia and thousands of islands grouped together.
Means "lands of the ocean" |
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| Revolves around the distant past when ancestors emerged from the earth shaping the landscape and its beings. |
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| Aboriginal female spirits |
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| Art style typically containing linear patterns and cross-hatching. Masks and masquerades typical. |
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| Design created with comb-like bone tool; tool dipped in black pigment (soot, charcoal); tool placed against skin; sharp rap with stick punctures skin. |
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| Tattoing ritual specialist |
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| Meaning before Columbus reached the Americas; early artwork of the Americas |
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| the region that extends from what is now Mexico city to modern day Honduras. This region includes the Olmec, Aztec, and Mayan civilizations |
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| Called the “mother culture”; known for jade objects. |
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The most advanced civilization in Mesoamerica.
Developed the most sophisticated calendar and writing system of the region. |
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Migrated into the Valley of Mexico during the 13th Century
Featherwork was greatly prized; masks were also commonplace. |
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| Lived in the central Andes; known for their pottery and goldsmithing. |
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| Lived in Colombia; known for goldsmithing techniques |
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Excelled at textiles, sculpture, gold and silver work, and stonework.
Believed that stones and people were equally alive and capable of changing into one another. |
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| Make arts known as "arts of the daily life" like baskets, clothing, and tools. Cultures include the Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Anasazi, Mogollon, Pueblo, Navajo, and Pacific Northwest peoples. |
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| Mound Builders (Eastern Woodlands) |
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| Created earthworks such as burial mounds, some in geometric forms or shapes of animals. |
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| Considered a sacred substance; smoking it was seen as an act of prayer; a stone pipe is a North American invention. |
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| Quills from a porcupine or bird are softened, then died, and worked into the surface of deer skin or birch bark. |
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| Mimbres Pottery (Mogollon) |
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| A type of ceramic vessel decorated with geometric designs or stylized humans and animals; it would be shattered during a burial, thus releasing the soul. |
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| Kachinas and Kachina Dolls |
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| Supernatural beings thought to contain some power of the spirit they represented. |
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