Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

By the mid-17th century, the Navajo had also learned how to weave from their Hopi and other Pueblo neighbors, quickly adapt- ing ...

the Northwest Coast area are the Kwakiutl of southern British Colum- bia; the Haida, who live on Queen Charlotte Island off the ...

KWAKIUTL AND TLINGIT MASKS Northwest Coast reli- gious specialists used masks in their healing rituals. Men also wore masks in d ...

HAIDA TOTEM POLESAlthough Northwest Coast arts have a spiritual dimension, they are often more important as expressions of socia ...

CHILKAT BLANKETSAnother characteristic Northwest Coast art form is the Chilkat blanket (FIG. 32-14), named for an Alaskan Tlingi ...

HIDATSA REGALIABecause most Plains peoples were no- madic, they focused their aesthetic attention largely on their cloth- ing an ...

During the reservation period, some Plains arts continued to flourish, notably beadwork for the women and painting in ledger boo ...

MESOAMERICA ❚When the first Europeans arrived in the New World, they encountered native peoples with sophis- ticated civilizatio ...

33-1Moai, Anakena, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Polynesia, 10th to 12th centuries. Volcanic tuff and red scoria. The colossal stone ...

W hen people think of the South Pacific, images of balmy tropical islands usually come to mind. But the islands of the Pacific O ...

These island groups came to Western attention as a result of the extensive exploration and colonization that began in the 16th c ...

ious ancestral spirits through the landscape), and sacred places were common subjects. Ancestral spirits pervade the lives of th ...

Given the wide diversity in environments and languages, it is no sur- prise that hundreds of art styles are found on New Guinea ...

The Asmat see the human body as a tree—the feet as the roots, the arms as the branches, and the head as the fruit. Thus any frui ...

The final stage of the cycle (FIG. 33-6) focused on the dramatic appearance of the masks from the eravo (men’s house). After a p ...

New Ireland and the Trobriand Islands East of New Guinea but part of the modern nation of Papua New Guinea are New Ireland and t ...

Because the sculptors use highly stylized motifs in intricate, inter- twined curvilinear designs, identification of the specific ...

rooster images represent a deity called Blellek. He warns women to stay away from the ocean and the bai or he will molest them. ...

Polynesia Polynesia was one of the last areas in the world that humans settled. Habitation in the western Polynesian islands did ...

Tonga Tonga is the westernmost island in Polynesia. Its arts are varied, but one of its most distinctive products is barkcloth, ...