1. A.
What is this?
What would it be used
for?
Does it belong in a
natural history
museum, or an art
museum? Why?

2. B.
What do the figures
represent?
What would it be
used for?
Why did the artist
choose those colors?

3. C.
What is this?
Is it art? Why?
Why did form the patterns
this way?

4. Royal crown (ade), Nigeria, Yoruba
peoples, late 19th to early 20th
century, glass beads, cloth, basketry,
and fiber, Dallas Museum of Art, gift
of David T. Owsley via the Alvin and
Lucy Owsley Foundation, 2008.39
http://youtu.be/VWLJ8d5_Ygc
http://dallasmuseumofart.org/View/CurrentExhibitions/dma_38464

5. Mola: embroidered
panels that make up
a Kuna Indian
woman’s blouse
The Kuna fill their
Mola with designs
derived from nature
and tribal teachings.
Photo courtesy of Stephanie Smith

6. Classic Navajo Serape c.1865.
Raveled Bayeta Red, Native
Handspun Indigo Blue and Natural
White. 40 x 80 in.
The colors of the Navajo
blanket hold special meaning.
Blue, black, white, and yellow
represent parts of the story of
Navajo origin.
http://www.horsekeeping.com/jewelry/N
avajoIndians.htm
www.faustgallery.com/dynamic/artwork_detail.a...