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AP® Art History Teaching Resources

Indigenous North America (except Mexico) Before 1980

Key Work of Art or Architecture		Related Content for Contextual Understanding
154. Mesa Verde, Ancestral Puebloan (450-1300 CE)	Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi). Mesa Verde, Colorado (20)	Architecture: Domestic Architecture through Time (24) Comparison: Petra, Jordan & Mesa Verde (23)
156. Great Serpent Mound, Ea. Woodlands (c1070 CE)	Adena and Mississippian (Eastern Woodlands). Great Serpent Mound. Ohio (8)	Adena and Mississippian (Eastern Woodlands). Portable Art (22) Archaic, Adena, & Mississippian Mound Building (18) Comparison: Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson & Great Serpent Mound (18) Comparison: Stonehenge, Neolithic Europe & Great Serpent Mound (20)
163. Bandolier bag, Lenape tribe (c 1850 CE)	Lenape (Delaware tribe, Eastern Woodlands). Bandolier bags (24)	Beadwork of the Indigenous Americas (21) Comparison: Beadwork of the Wixarika (3)
164. Transformation mask, Kwakiutl (19th C.)	Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl). Transformation mask (16)	Northwest Coast Native Art (26) Comparison: NW Coast Transformation Masks & Chavín nose ring (14) World Masking Traditions (18)
165. Painted elk hide, Cotsiogo (c 1895 CE)	Cadzi Cody (Cotsiogo). Painted elk hide, Wind River Res., Wyoming (14)	Native Art of the Great Plains (22) Native Art: Plains Ledger Paintings (8) Vessels of Maria Martinez & Painted elk hide, Cotsiogo (19)
166. Black-on-Black vessel, Martinez (20th Cen CE)	Martinez, Maria and Julian Martinez. Black-on-black vessels (18) Martinez, Maria and Julian Martinez. The making of Black-on-Black Vessels (11)	Puebloan Pottery Tradition (19) Tradition/Change: Examples of Revivalism in Art and Architecture (26) Comparison: Niobides Krater to Maria Martínez’s Black-on Black vessels (19)
See Also	Indigenous Americas: an Overview (39)