This exhibit was especially
interesting to me because of the creative use of the resources available to the
natives. Because many of these tribes were isolated from the rest of the world
for thousands of years, they developed their own unique culture and customs
which is manifested in their intriguing art.
The Mayan statue.
Their dolls were especially
interesting because they were so well constructed. The vivid colors reflected a
rich history and culture.
They considered the human body in
their art quite well, incorporating the skeleton often.
This is a model that an explorer made
of a traditional “big house” used in a native village in Canada. The concept of
the door they used was thought provoking and really creative. Instead of a flap
or door as we are used to, they used a small hole in a wall in order to force
people to crawl in and out of it, mimicking the birth into another realm.
This is a costume they wore during
certain rituals and ceremonies. They are almost doll like because of the
exaggeration of the head and the body.
The tribes were focused on how they
were brought into this world and how they will live after. They used the world
as a physical setting in which they reenacted the gods’ actions and this to me
is so original and different because the land was their stage. While today,
actors pretend they are other personalities, characters, heroes, villains, the
tribes of the past used this to educate and to keep their history alive. In the
West, it is a form of entertainment – to the native, it was an important
ritual.
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