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Sequoyah's Syllabary: Write your birthmonth in the symbols of Sequoyah's Cherokee Syllabary. You'll find this on Abby's Website. After you visit this site, write Abby a note.
Go to the Nativetech site, click on Birds and Feathers, then click on Contemporary Single Wrapped Feather Styles. Make a drawing of one of the feather styles in the space below. (stay on this webpage for question #3)

Read the text "..a little about Native American Featherwork".
- What are some of the messages that feathers communicate to the viewer?
- What are the feathers of the blue jays and cardinals often used for?
- How was a hummingbird used?

Visit the The Art of the African Mask Exhibition Catalog Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia

Pick the most interesting
mask (in your opinion) and
sketch it in the space at the right.

What did you learn about the symbolism of this mask?

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