Arts in the Americas

Slide list 13

Iroquois/Hodenosaunee art (1600-present)

IROQUOIS (Onondaga), Vincent Bomberry, Birth of Good and Evil, steatite (stone), 1982

IROQUOIS, Anonymous, Hiawatha Wampum Belt, 17^th century

IROQUOIS (Mohawk), Anonymous, Black Velvet Bag, late 19^th century

IROQUOIS (Caughnawaga Mohawk), Richard Glazer-Danay, Bingo War Bonnet, 1995

Terms:

Iroquois Confederacy/Nation (1570/1600), Hodenosaunee, people of the longhouse: Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Tuscarora (joins c.1722)

Sky Woman

Victorian (based on British Queen Victoria’s reign)

Note re: dates – notice that the Wampum fits into the Colonial period, or 17^th century. As you are memorizing dates, you should use the relevant century.