Lesson challenge 7 -- ArchiveGrid and CAMIO

Discovery exercise part 1 -- ArchiveGrid/Sitting Bull's autograph card.

1. Sitting Bull was the original freedom fighter for his people. He opposed the white man's take over of the west and fought to resist the loss of his traditions and his religion by continuing with the Ghost Dance which caused his death.

2. I did a search on Emiliano Zapata mexican revolutionary leader. Most of the documents on the first page are in the University of Berkeley, some are in the University of Texas. There were 47 results, I did not look at all of them but the ones on the first page of the search varied from a letter from Zapata to Manuel Palafox for services rendered in the use of accomodations at Amecameca to Oral interview with Mexican political leaders by James Wallace Wilkie, which incidentally his wife's last name is Monzon (same as my maiden name and I discovered this thru a previous search of my maiden name).

Discovery exercise part 2 -- Camio

1. Items made by Paul Revere were: teaspoon, sugar bowl, creampot, saver, sons of liberty bowl, several teapots, coffee urn, two handle covered bowl, sugar urn, sugar basket, tankard, Cann wine quart, goblet and a sauceboat. There were a few items made by Paul Revere Jr and I was not sure if it is the same person or his son.

2. The items this search brought some were utilitarian from blanket strip to fancier bead work on shirts and tabacco and pipe pouches, also the pipe bowls were intricately carved and I did not realized the bowl and the stem were two different pieces. There were several books of pictographs some were religious (sun dance, praying and dreams) and others were war related (attacking and Custer's war) to advice (preparing for marriage) and possibly a children's book about "witches playing with their baby" though this one was a single drawing and not a book. The search offered also several prints and photographs of life of the sioux.

3. Frida Kahlo: self portrait with a monkey. I was fortunate enough to see this portrait during an exibit or Frida Kahlo's work in the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis Mn about 3-4 years ago. My search only yielded one example of this great Mexican artist. I have linked the picture if anyone is interested in seeing it.

4. This resource could be used by art students who wish to study different examples of one artist, also there can be a virtual show where you would have several computers on with different images on them about a theme for example the Revolutionary War of the US, or Mexican artists and their chicano counterparts. This way you could view several images at once and try and make observations of the pieces and the unifying theme.

5. This by far has to be the best feature of this site. It offers an unending array of possibilities for use with students. I really really like this feature. I created a webpage with images from Mexico containing small pottery statues and a mask which gives a good sampling of pre-columbian art, I suppose you need to have a webpage space to upload it to but still it has good possibilities. The slice show was great as well =)