ARH 2500 Study Guide - Loom, Wari Culture, Camelid
21 Apr 2014
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A means of gaining status and reinforcing social structures. 1893: meant to show off history, exhibited actual people in a human zoo , bent wood boxes, northwest coast, 19th, 20th c. , cedar wood, pigment, used to store, and cook, rain hat, tlingit, nw coast, 1982, bark and pigment. South america, meso america, north america: pre-contact, post-contact, way of dividing chronology in the americas; before contact with. Europeans vs. after contact with europeans: new world, broad way to refer to the americas; undiscovered world apart from the. Staff god : god holding two staffs ii. Identifiable figure, recurring: necropolis, mass burial; city of the dead , camelid, embroidered mantle, paracas, peru, late period 200 bc-200 ad, camelid fiber. In a dry region of peru, important because lack of moisture important for textile: figures in organized pattern; same figures, but flipped in different ways (mirroring), but different (colors).
