This document provides an overview of Native American arts from various regions including Mesoamerica, South America, and North America after 1300 AD. It covers major cultures and time periods like the Aztec, Maya, Inca, and tribes from the Southwest, Northwest Coast, Great Plains. It describes art forms like masks, totem poles, pottery, textiles, and ledger drawings. It also mentions architectural sites like Machu Picchu and structures used for religious ceremonies.

1. Native Arts of the Americas
after 1300
Florence

2. Classification of art
• Mesoamerica
– Preclassic
• Olmec
• Teotihuaca
– Classic
• Maya
• Veracruz
– Postclassic
• Northern Maya
• Toltec
– Aztec
– Spanish Exploration
• South America
– Early Horizon
• Chavín
– Early Intermediate
• Paracas, Nasca, Moche
– Middle Horizon
• Tiwanaku and Wari
– Late Horizon
• Inka/Inca Empire

3. MIXTECA-PUEBLA
Mesoamerica

4. Borgia Codex
• Rare illustrated book
• Mictlantecuhtli and
Quezocoatl
• Relationship of life and
death

6. Great Temple,
Tenochtitlan

7. superimposition

8. Coyolxauqui
(She of the Golden
Bells)
• Sister of Huitzilopochtli
• Plotted to destroy mother
Coatlicue

9. Disk’s location

10. Coatlicue
(She of the Serpent
Skirt)
• Beheaded
• Savagery and tenderness
• Colossal

11. INCA
South America

12. Machu Picchu

13. Machu Picchu

14. Temple of the Sun
(Santo Domingo)

15. Machu Picchu

16. SOUTHWEST
North America

17. Kuaua Pueblo ruins
Ancestral Puebloan

18. Inside the kiva

19. Detail of kiva mural

20. Hopi Katsina
• Otto Pentewa
• Benevolent spirits of
ancestors and natural
elements
• Festivals of masked
dancers

21. Hopi Katsina
• Otto Pentewa
• Benevolent spirits of
ancestors and natural
elements
• Festivals of masked
dancers

23. Maria Montoya
Martinez
• Revived Pueblo pottery
• Black on black designs
• Matte

24. Maria Montoya
Martinez
• Revived Pueblo pottery
• Black on black designs
• Matte

27. NORTHWEST COAST AND ALASKA
North America

28. Kwakiutl and
Tlingit Masks
• Exaggerated features
• Transformation

29. Kwakiutl and
Tlingit Masks
• Exaggerated features
• Transformation
• War helmet

30. Haida totem poles

31. Haida totem poles

32. Chilkat blanket

33. Yupik Eskimo masks
• Single use, then
abandoned
• Ceremonial life based on
game animals

37. GREAT PLAINS
North America

38. Hidatsa regalia
• Nomadic tribe
• Symbols of military and
social accomplishments
• Recognized by other tribes

39. Ledger art

40. Sioux sacred regalia
• Dominant Native American
stereotype
• Rampant racism

41. Ledger art

42. Ledger art

43. Ledger art

44. Quiz
1. What were the major causes for the fall of the
Aztec empire?
2. Why are books so rare and valuable?
3. How were the Inca able to manage such a vast
empire built in the mountains?
4. What is the biggest difference in themes and
motifs in Meso-/South American vs. North
American arts?
5. How did North American native arts change
after the tribes were moved onto reservations?

45. The End