Be prepared to identify and/or discuss any of the following terms or images:

Southeast

bannerstones
Adena stone tablets (such as the Berlin tablet)
Missippian era sun symbols (cross in circle, hand and eye, spider)
Mississippian era bird man imagery
Chunkey Player (pipe and/or engraved shell gorget)
Serpent Mound
Cahokia

Plains

tipi
ledger drawing/painting
winter count
parfleche
shields
men's shirt
cradle board
quill work
 
Mimbres, Pueblo and Anasazi

sipapu
kiva
Pueblo Bonito
Kokopelli
Koshare
Mimbres Childbirth Pot
 

Be prepared to answer the following essays:

1.  Tell me what you have learned about the arts of the Native peoples of the Eastern Woodlands and Southeast (Archaic, Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian/Ft. Ancient and Cherokee). What are some of the symbols frequently found among these arts and on what types of objects do we find these symbols (give at least three examples)?   What are some of the materials they used and where did they obtain these materials?  Why did the ancestral peoples of the Eastern Woodlands build mounds?

2.  Share what you have learned about the Native peoples of the Plains.  How did the Plains peoples' way of life impact their architecture and art?  (Provide at least four different examples of specific objects to illustrate your essay).  Discuss three different art forms that  were made possible by the natural resource of the buffalo.  How did the Plains' peoples' spiritual beliefs influence their creative expression?

3. Explain what you have learned about Pueblo ways of looking at the world (and those of their ancestors) through their art making and how their arts have changed over time.