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24 Cards in this Set
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Dreaming/Dream time |
A metatemporal concept |
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Bark painting |
Would not last long |
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Mimih |
Type of trickster spirit in Aboriginal mythology |
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Rarrk |
Aboriginal style drawing method using dense cross hatching |
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Ere ibeji |
Twin figures |
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Nataali |
Wizard/shamaan |
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Pueblo |
Community area |
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Katsinas |
Brings water to the earth, a teaching tool, dolls |
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Oral Tradition Textiles (Chilkat Blanket) |
Made out of goat hair & cedar bark, worn @ ceremonies |
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Kandinsky |
Concerning the spiritual in art |
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Heyoka |
Warrior, has eagle claws |
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Ledger Art |
A term for Plains Indians narrative drawing or painting on paper cloth |
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Vanitas |
Vanity |
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Wunderkrammer |
Curiosity cabinets |
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Devotion moderna |
Moral lessons were inherent in tradition |
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Bella Coola (Komokoa) |
Means stranger, also a region in BC |
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Yarla |
Aboriginal term for Bush potato by the Warlpri people |
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Dot painting |
is the Aboriginal technique used - that it is produced by repeated imprints of a paint covered brush, dotting stick or other implement onto the surface of the painting |
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Sand/Dry paintings |
is the art of pouring coloured sands, and powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, or pigments from other natural or synthetic sources onto a surface to make a fixed, or unfixed sand painting |
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Healing Ceremony |
healing ceremonies are immersive experiences that enable a person to be brought into direct contact with the healing spirits. |
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Yei |
something along the lines of spirit, god, demon or monster. |
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Nightway chant |
Most difficult of Navajo rituals. Demands the memorization of hundreds of songs, prayers and many sand paintings. A healing ritual |
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4 Cardinal points |
NSEW |
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Tulip mania |
a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed. |
