Native American Art

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  1. 4. a light ax once used by Native Americans as a tool for cutting and as a weapon for fighting.
  2. 8. shell beads woven into belts or strings used to record treaties and other agreements among different nations.
  3. 9. A conical skin-and-frame dwelling, the tipi was an easily moved yet substantial structure used by the nomadic Plains Indians.
  4. 10. Winter shelter for northern Shoshone: Domed hut, wood pole frame, brush and bark. Central fire and air vent.
  5. 11. religious art, made from crushed rock, plants, cand other dry materials by highly trained Navajo spiritual leaders: serves as part of the Navajo spiritual ceremony
  6. 13. A wooden pole carved with ancestral spirits or symbols erected by Pacific Coast Native Americans.
  7. 16. used to filter good and bad dreams
  8. 17. Native American flutes have two chambers with a wall dividing the top and bottom.
  9. 18. Person believed to be able to cure physical and mental ailments in people using certain instruments and articles.
  10. 19. dried gourds with pebbles or seeds;sticking a wooden handle through a tortoise shell, filling it with pebbles;crafted from rawhide; the hide is sewn together, shaped and dried, then filled with pebbles.
  11. 20. Notched sticks that make sounds when you scrape another stick against its notches.Can also be added to drums.
  12. 21. "Mini Gods" Ancestors of the Pueblo, given value to the supernatural, ceremonial, entertainment
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  1. 1. A soft metamorphic rock composed mostly of the mineral talc. Is tough, durable & popular for small carvings such as pipes or pottery.
  2. 2. ecious stone, typically opaque and of a greenish-blue or sky-blue color used in native jewelry.
  3. 3. Sound of drumbeats in Native American music.
  4. 5. Pacific Northwest Coast (Kwakiutl), 20th Century CE, masks used to become that character the mask depicts
  5. 6. Healing drum and medicine drum -- is generally a one-sided instrument laced in the earth's four directions with a sturdy, natural hand-hold on the back, which allows the shaman to play it with his free hand
  6. 7. A round room used by the pueblo people for religious ceremonies
  7. 10. Made from bones of animals or wood. Eagle-bone whistle most common type.
  8. 12. Native American ceremony that often includes traditional dancing and games
  9. 14. A long wooden building in which several families could live, used by the Iroquois. Made of wood which was plentiful.
  10. 15. Carved shell pendants worn around the neck.