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| Approximately how long did it take to construct an iglu? |
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| What is the average size of an iglu? |
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Males only -or- Sometimes males and females/children, but with male on inside and females on outside |
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"spirit" who in human form sacrificed herself for humans, fell to bottom of sea, and became the goddess of the sea, life, sustinence, regineration, etc. |
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| In B.E.S, the red road ran... |
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| In B.E.S., the black road ran |
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| What objects did the maidens get, and at which directions? |
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N - herb and goose wing S - flowering stick E - pipe W - hoop of the world |
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| On B.E.'s sacred tipi, what was painted on which direction? |
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W = a bow and cup of water N = white geese and the herb E = day break star and the pipe S = flowering stick and the nation's hoop |
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| What was painted over the door of B.E.'s sacred tipi for the horse dance? |
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| The horses/horsemen are painted what colors at which directions? |
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W = Black N = White E = Red S = Yellow |
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| On the phylogeny charts, males are depicted as ______ while females are depicted as _______. |
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| an image believed to "participate," be linked to, what it is an image of (and qualities associated with it). |
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| What herb is common in Indian ceremony, especially B.E.S? |
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| What is the name of the Lakota/Indian God? |
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| What purpose does sweating serve? |
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| purification, preparation for contact w/ deity |
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| The fire of a sweathouse is called... |
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| In what direction is the entrance of the sweat lodge? |
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| What is the name of the Lakota sweat lodge? |
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| Movement from the fire, across the earth mound, down the sacred path, and into the sweat lodge can be considered __________ and goes in what direction? |
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| graduated sanctity, east to west |
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| What are the four features of a sweat lodge? |
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| fire "of no end," earth mound, sacred path, and the actual sweat lodge structure |
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| To the Lakota, what does the earth mound represent? |
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| What type of stone is used in the sweat lodge? |
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| "lava rock," and also sandstone? |
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| The anthropological term for marriage is ______. |
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| the anthropological term for marriage |
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| the anthropological term for "blood relation" or "descent" |
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| What is the anthropological term for "descent" or "blood relation"? |
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| What are the four styles of roofs that we have studied? |
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| gable, hipped, hipped gable, pavilion |
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| According to Fujimori, which aspects of traditional japanese style houses are the most important? |
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| What is the name of the sliding walls INSIDE a traditional japanese style house? |
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| sliding screen wall inside a traditional style house |
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| outside sliding wall of a traditional style japanese house |
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| What is the name of an outside sliding wall of a traditional style japanese house? |
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| 3'x6' woven grass (rush) mat used as flooring for traditional japanese style houses |
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| What is the typical dimension of a tatami? |
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| How were houses traditionally measured in Japan? |
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| by the number of tatami mats |
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| What is the name of measurement for the tatami? |
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interval, space between things here, space itself is an aspect of composition |
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| What is the Japanese term for the "space between things" ? |
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| Japanese "style" of housing, rural farmhouses |
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| Japanese "style" of houses, tea houses |
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| post in traditional japanese style houses |
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| What are the posts called in traditional japanese style houses? |
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| What is the name of the central post in a traditional japanese style house? |
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| extension of the floor to the "outside" space of a traditional japanese style house |
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| Shoin architecture gets its name from what? |
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| the "shoin," or inset desk |
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| a picture recess allowing the hanging of a picture/scroll or flower arrangement |
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| What religion is associated with the Butsudan? |
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| Who is venerated at the Butsudan? |
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| Where is the Kamidana usually located, and why is it placed where it is? |
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| high near the ceiling, to prevent "pollution" from the Butsudan -- b/c the Butsudan is associated with death |
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| What religion is associated with the Kamidana? |
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| What is the name of the household gods of the Shinto religion? |
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| Who is Muso Kokushi? What are the dates associated with him? |
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| first priest of Zuisen-Ji, builder/designer of Zuisen-Ji, 1275-1351 |
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| What does Zuisen-Ji mean? |
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| Temple of the Abundant Flowing Spring |
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| What direction is the entrance of Zuisen-Ji facing? |
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| Who was Bodhidharma? Dates? |
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| Person who brought Indian Buddhism to China, 470-543 |
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| What does Tenryu-Ji mean? |
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| Temple of Celestial/Heavenly Dragon |
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| What is the date associated with Tenryu-Ji? |
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| Kyoto (Arashiyama District) |
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| What style of roof does the arbor, or ichi-rante, have at the top of the mountain at Zuisen-Ji? |
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| What made the best blocks for an iglu? |
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| unlayered snow from a single storm |
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| Where did the entrances of iglus face? |
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| away from the prevailing winds, E or S |
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| What is the dropped area of an iglu called? |
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| What is Natiq associated with? |
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| Men, their tools, and the sea |
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| What is the raised, sleeping platform in an iglu called? |
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| What is ikliq associated with? |
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| women, their soapstone lamps and gear, and the land |
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| How many worlds did the innuit believe in? |
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| above ground innuit world |
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| What is the agneriartarfik? |
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| the ground level world/realm of the innuit |
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| The below ground world/realm, associated with Sedna |
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| What are the three realms of the innuit? |
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| Niliajuk (above), Agneriartarfik (ground), Aglermiut (below) |
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| What is the Natsilik innuit name for a communal iglu? |
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| What type of lineage are the innuit? |
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| What innuit group did we encounter in our studies? |
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| How many people did the average iglu house? |
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| What happened when there was a death in the iglu? |
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Some groups broke a hole in the wall of the iglu and removed the dead (like a hogan) some sealed the iglu up like a MAUSOLEUM |
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| slightly curved ivory knife for cutting snow blocks |
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| communal club houses, or Gaggi, of iglus |
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| What is the significance of the dome in the iglu? |
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| provides the maximum volume possible with the least amount of surface area, and no corners for stagnant, cold air to form |
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| Eskimo tent, used in the summer, made of caribou skins |
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| What type of wood were the poles of the tipi made of? |
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| how the tipis were transported... bounded at one end and latched to a horse and dragged w/ contents |
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| What is the "center" of the tipi? |
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| What were the sleeping arrangements in the tipi? |
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| youngest w/ mothers at the door (East, rising sun), oldest slept towards N ("setting"), and the lodge head at the W |
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| What is the "magic number" for the Indians? |
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| What is the tipi as a whole sometimes representative of? |
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human body a woman giving birth -or- a main raising arms and praying |
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| What are the smoke flaps associated with? |
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| What is the tipi sometimes symbolically associated with? |
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| What serves as an axis mundi in the tipi? |
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| What is the axis mundi in the sun dance lodge? |
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| crotch of the center pole (cottonwood) |
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| The rear side of the Plains tipi was both ________ and _________. |
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| steeper (to protect against prevailing winds), and wider (like an egg) |
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| Which peoples built 4 pole tipis? |
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| Which peoples built 3 pole tipis? |
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| A four-pole design was common in the _______ while a three-pole design was common in the ______. |
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| How was the cover prepared? |
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| smoked to prevent cracking after rain |
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| Tipi poles were shorter in the ________. |
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| Southern tipi doorways were often in the shape of a _________ while northern doorways were often in the shape of a _________ |
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| Men usually sat on the ______ side of the tipi while women sat to the _____________. |
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| A familial lineage that extends back to a single point is a... |
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| Two clans assoicated yet divided by kinship/quasikinship is a... |
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| neighbor to southern Cheyenne, roamed across SW Kansas and Oklahoma |
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| Who had the biggest tipis in the plains? |
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| Camp circle, sky people/male to N, earth people/women to south |
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| On a Blackfeet tipi, the middle of the tipi is designated as: |
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| place for vision paintings, separates sky from earth |
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| How big were sundance lodges? |
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| The center pole of a sun dance lodge was made of? |
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| The poles of a sweat house were often made of |
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| regional or community deity of Shinto |
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| What kind of food is not offered to either the butsudan of kamidana? |
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| In Raglan's House as Temple, what do the Hidatsa indians regard as living beings? |
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| center posts of their houses |
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| In Nigeria, the shrine honoring ancestors is placed where? |
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| In the Mongolian tent (gher), where is the altar located? |
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| left of the bed as one enters |
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| scottish word for the offence of feloniously assaulting a man in his own house |
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| When was Zuisen-Ji constructed? |
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| Where is Zuisen-Ji located? |
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