unit 5 (indigenous americas) identifiers:

Chavín de Huántar

Northern highlands, Peru

Chavín

900-200 BCE

Stone (architectural complex); granite (Lanzón and sculpture); hammered gold alloy (jewelry)

Mesa Verde cliff dwellings

Montezuma County, Colorado

Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi)

4500-1300 CE

Sandstone

Yaxchilán

Chiapas, Mexico

Maya

725 CE

Limestone (architectural complex)

Great Serpent Mound

Adams County, southern Ohio

Mississippian (Eastern Woodlands)

c. 1070 CE

Earthwork/effigy mound

Templo Mayor (Main Temple)

Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City, Mexico)

Mexica (Aztec)

1375-1520 CE

Stone (temple); volcanic stone (The Coyolxauhqui Stone); jadeite (Olmec-style mask); basalt (Calendar Stone)

Ruler’s feather headdress (probably of Motecuhzoma II)

Mexica (Aztec)

1428-1520 CE

Feathers (quetzal and cotinga) and gold

City of Cusco, including Qorikancha (Inka main temple), Santo Domingo (Spanish colonial convent), and Walls at Saqsa Waman (Sacsayhuaman)

City of Machu Picchu

Central highlands, Peru

Inka

c. 1450-1540 CE

Granite (architectural complex)

All-T’oqapu tunic

Inka

1450-1540 CE

Camelid fiber and cotton

Bandolier bag

Lenape (Delaware tribe, Eastern Woodlands)

c. 1850 CE

Beadwork on leather

transformation mask

Kwakwaka’wakw, Northwest coast of Canada

late 19th century CE

wood, paint, and string

Painted elk hide

attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody)

Eastern Shoshone, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming

c. 1890-1900 CE

Painted elk hide

Black-on-black ceramic vessel

Maria Martínez and Julian Martínez

Tewa, Puebloan

San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico

c. mid-20th century CE

Blackware ceramic