Lesson Plan and Resources, Native American Collection, 2004-2006

Lesson plan on 'Animals in Art', Native American Collection to introduce students to discuss design, image elements, and symbolic significance of animals in Native American art. Lesson discusses artwork related to Kwakwaka' wakw artist(s) and Haida artist(s) of British Colombia, Canada. New York Times article from August 16, 2005 titled, 'Those Ancient Incan Knots? Tax Accounting Researchers Suggest' by Nicholas Wade on quipus (bundles of colored and knotted threads which served as a means of recording information by the Incan Empire). A page of handwritten notes, followed by a list and description of Native American (Tlingit, Haida, Wasco, Klikitat, Makah, Tsilhqot'in, Sioux, Yanktonai) artworks. New York Times article from August 2, 2005 titled 'Wehn Bird and Whale Shook the Earth', by James Gorman on the Cascadia earthquake of 1700 and its effects on Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest.