Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 14 Lakota Questions: |
Look Questions Teacher Answer Key
1. What is this dress made of? (Hide.) How can you tell? (The material has the color and TEXTURE of natural hide; the folds suggest its heavy weight.) What is the bright-colored area of the dress made of? (Beads.) How can you tell? (Texture and precise rows suggest beadwork.)
2. How many different colors of beads would you need to make this dress? (Sky blue, dark blue, white, red, green, and yellow.) Which color would you need the most of? (Sky blue.) How many beads would you need to make this dress? (Thousands!)
3. This dress has a SYMBOL for a turtle on it. Can you guess which symbol refers to the turtle? (The U-shape at the center of the yoke is a symbol for turtle.) The design on the yoke of this dress is called turtle-by-the-shore-of-the-lake. What represents the lakeshore in the design? (The narrow white strip directly above the turtle symbol.) How is the lake itself represented? (With the color blue, suggesting the reflection of the sky.)
4. The Lakota artist who beaded this dress made an ABSTRACT SYMBOL that stands for the turtle. Abstract means that certain features are exaggerated and other details are left out. What features of the turtle did this artist exaggerate? (The oval shape and colored patterns of a turtle's shell.) What features or details did she leave out? (Legs, eyes, and tail, detailed pattern on the shell.)
5. What other decorations do you see on this dress?
(Fringe, hanging beads, buttons below the beaded white
strip on the yoke, bells in the beaded border on the
hem.) Using the fringe, hanging decorations, and bells
as clues, what do you think this dress was worn for?
(Dancing.)
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