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Content Area 1: Global Prehistory
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Content Area 3: Early Europe & Colonial Americas
Content Area 4: Later Europe and Americas
Content Area 5: Indigenous Americas
Content Area 6: Africa
Content Area 7: West and Central Asia
Content Area 8: South, East and Southeast Asia
Content Area 9: The Pacific
Content Area 10: Global Contemporary
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Content Area 1: Global Prehistory
Content Area 2: Ancient Mediterranean
Content Area 3: Early Europe & Colonial Americas
Content Area 4: Later Europe and Americas
Content Area 5: Indigenous Americas
Content Area 6: Africa
Content Area 7: West and Central Asia
Content Area 8: South, East and Southeast Asia
Content Area 9: The Pacific
Content Area 10: Global Contemporary
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Content area 5
Indigenous americas
(1000 B.C.E. - 1980 C.E.)
14 works
153. Chavín de Huántar. Northern highlands, Peru. Chavín. 900–200 B.C.E. Stone (architectural complex); granite (Lanzón and sculpture); hammered gold alloy (jewelry
154. Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. Montezuma County, Colorado. Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi). 450–1300 C.E. Sandstone.
155. Yaxchilán. Chiapas, Mexico. Maya. 725 C.E. Limestone (architectural complex).
156. Great Serpent Mound. Adams County, southern Ohio. Mississippian (Eastern Woodlands). c. 1070 C.E. Earthwork/effigy mound.
157. Templo Mayor (Main Temple). Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City, Mexico). Mexica (Aztec). 1375–1520 C.E. Stone (temple); volcanic stone (The Coyolxauhqui Stone); jadeite (Olmec-style mask); basalt (Calendar Stone).
A100. Coatlicue / From Tenochtitlan, Mexico City, Mexico / Aztec / c. 1487 – 1520 / stone stone
158. Ruler’s feather headdress (probably of Motecuhzoma II). Mexica (Aztec). 1428–1520 C.E. Feathers (quetzal and cotinga) and gold
159. City of Cusco, including Qorikancha (Inka main temple), Santo Domingo (Spanish colonial convent), and Walls at Saqsa Waman (Sacsayhuaman). Central highlands, Peru. Inka. c. 1440 C.E.; convent added 1550–1650 C.E. Andesite
160. Maize cobs. Inka. c. 1440–1533 C.E. Sheet metal/repoussé, metal alloys
161. City of Machu Picchu. Central highlands, Peru. Inka. c. 1450–1540 C.E. Granite (architectural complex).
162. All-T’oqapu tunic. Inka. 1450–1540 C.E. Camelid fiber and cotton
163. Bandolier bag. Lenape (Delaware tribe, Eastern Woodlands). c. 1850 C.E. Beadwork on leather
164. Transformation mask. Kwakwaka’wakw, Northwest coast of Canada. Late 19th century C.E. Wood, paint, and string.
165. Painted elk hide. Attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody), Eastern Shoshone, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming. c. 1890–1900 C.E. Painted elk hide
166. Black-on-black ceramic vessel. Maria Martínez and Julian Martínez, Tewa, Puebloan, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. c. mid-20th century C.E. Blackware ceramic