Kwakwaka'wakw is pronounced: kwa-kwa-ka-wak

Kwakwaka'wakw is pronounced: kwa-kwa-ka-wak

Kwakwaka'wakw is pronounced: kwa-kwa-ka-wak

This link to a 2002 National Public Radio story on totem poles includes text, audio, images and links to other Native and non-Native resources about totem poles in the Northwest Coast Region of the U.S. and Canada.

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/totempoles/index.html

This set was created as a writing assignment for an Intro to Visual Arts college course. The instructions for the assignment can be found under the Related Items tab above.

This set was developed as a writing assignment for a semester-long Intro to Visual Arts college course. Students were directed to this set for instructions that explained how to complete the assignment.

Before seeing this set though, they each chose a postcard (a real poscard, not a digital one) of a work of art from the MIA's collection on the first day of the course and introduced themselves in class by telling why they'd chosen the postcard they did. They then were given this assignment using the ArtsConnectEd image on the postcard they had chosen.

Once the writing assignment described in this set was complete, the students submitted their sets to me via email (an option on the Set Actions menu).

See the Related Items tab above for an example of one student's work, based on a Dorothea Lange photograph.

There are 4 Maya hieroglyphs on the outside of this jar. Two can be seen here. The one on the right in this image is translated as "his/her drinking vessel." The glyph on the left has not been deciphered, but it probably identified the ancient Maya owner by name or title. The two glyphs that cannot be seen in this image include another un-deciphered name glyph and the glyph for "cacao" (chocolate), which helps confirm what this jar would have originally contained.

This jar is missing its locking lid that would have made it virtually spillproof and airtight (ancient Tupperware?!).

This late 19th-century shirt shows how artists have incorporated new materials, such as wool, obtained via trade with Europeans. It is made of red wool (Stroud cloth). On the related items tab, the Apsaalooka (Crow) shirt illustrates the more traditional way in which Great Plains men's shirts were constructed from two hides. The front legs of the animals form the sleeves, while the back legs hang down from the bottom of the shirt.

The MIA's paintings by El Greco and Tintoretto are examples of Mannerism, the period between the High Renaissance and the Baroque in art history.  Read more about Mannerism with respect to these paintings in the related text for each.