Art Chapter 20 – Flashcards
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Masks and masking played important roles in some Indian cultures. The Kwakiutl mask called Crooked Beak
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is one of four monstrous beings who eat human flesh
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One similarity between the feather cloaks of Hawaii and the meetinghouses of the Maori people of New Zealand is that
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both embody ideas about the order of society and the protective powers of the gods
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In the tumbaga pendant depicting a ruler, birds unfold like wings on either side of his head, representing
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sprint alter egos that give access to the other world
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The Aborigines of Australia
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arrived by sea as early as 50,000 years ago from Southeast Asia
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One Mesoamerican culture is often called the "mother culture" because it seemed to have institutionalized the features that mark later civilizations in the region. To which culture does this term refer?
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the Olmec
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The Tairona ornament made of tumbaga was fashioned using the technique of
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lost-wax casting
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In the Tolai spirit society known as duk duk, the duk duk are
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male spirits who punish lawbreakers
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Although no one know for certain how long people have lived in the Americans, the earliest-known evidence points to human habitations from about
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12,000 years ago
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The monumental sculptures of Easter Island
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were carved from volcanic stone in the island's mountains
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Many Mimbres ceramics recovered from graves have been shattered or pierced. This may represent
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the breaking of the vessel of the human body in death
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The ability to decipher Mayan writing has shifted our understanding of Mayan art. Whereas scholars previously believed Mayan art's purpose was to ______, they now believed it to have been_____
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present stories of the gods; almost entirely concerned with history
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The Yucatan Peninsula was home to the civilizations of the Maya. All but which of the following have been acknowledged as accomplishments of the Mayan culture?
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oil painting
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The use of gold in the Americas was
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first developed in Peru
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A kiva is a large, underground ceremonial chamber of the _____ people
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Anasazi
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The term "pre-Colimbian" is currently questioned as a description of the cultures in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus because
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the cultures did not think of themselves as coming "before" anything
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One god in the Aztec pantheon was Quetzalcoatl, who played an important role in the survival of this culture by
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bringing rain and water through windstorms
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Several cultures are known collectively as the "mound builders" The most famous of the mounds still visible is
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The Serpent Mound
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The Moche of South America left a substantial record of art that includes
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tens of thousands of ceramic objects, often depicting kneeling warriors
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_____was considered a sacred substance by many North American peoples and the vehicle for delivery became a sculptural art form
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Tobacco
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Like the ziggurats of Mesopotamia, _____pyramids were symbolically understood as mountains
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Mesoamerican
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A culture whose speech was rich in metaphors was the
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Aztec
