The following activities are designed for a secondary audience and use objects and primary source materials to explore the art and science of southwestern textiles. The two activities are designed to be completed in-class and include Museum visit extensions. A vocabulary list is included to supplement the activities. You will need Adobe's free Acrobat Reader to open these pdf files.

While the primary curriculum connections for both activities are to anthropology, history, and art, the following Colorado Model Content Standards are addressed:

Science: 1
History: 2
Reading and Writing: 1, 4, 5, and 6
Visual Arts: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Mathematics: 3

• Vocabulary List
• Spanish Colonial, Navajo, or Pueblo? Identifying Weavings of the Southwest
• Southwestern Textile Images
• "General Criteria for Distinguishing Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Colonial, Navajo, and Pueblo Weavings (1800-1880)" - information sheet for southwestern textiles
• "Three Southwest Weaving Cultures" - background information
• Answer Key
• Reading a Southwestern Textile
• Southwestern Textile Image
• University of Colorado Museum Textile data sheet - handwritten and transcribed (typed)
• "The Reading a Southwestern Textile" - background information
• Blank University of Colorado Museum Textile data sheet

CU Museum Home | Planning Your Visit | Exhibits | Research & Collections | Calendar
Education & Tours | Graduate Program | About the Museum | Gift Store | Get Involved! | Search
Sign up for the CU Museum Update! It's FREE!
For general questions or comments, please email cumuseum@colorado.edu.
Send technical questions and comments to the Webmaster.
©2003 CU Museum, UCB 218, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 tel: (303) 492-6892