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Monday, September 29, 2014

Native Americans

1. The beadwork is known for its beauty.
2. A key concept we will be using is math.
3. This design is based off 4 fold symmetry.
4.The 4 images have triangles or forms of different triangles in common.
5. Navajo rug, Pawnee hide Drum, Shoshone beadwork and Embroidery Plain Indians
6. Mirror imaging on both sides of an object is reflection symmetry.
7. Base 4 counting in Native American culture is teepee's having 4 poles
8. Four fold symmetry number 3 is commonly used in healing ceremonies like the Medicine man uses colored powder and washes away the drawing and the illness.
9. 4 fold symmetry number 4 is used shown and used by the Youpik in Alaska used by the Eskimos
10.  4 fold number 5 is used in a bead loom that have beads on the x and y axis.
11. It was created before European contact
12. 2 examples of these designs are the friendship treaty between the US and the Iroqouis and the other is wampum beads

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