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Native American Art and Culture

College of Visual Arts

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Great Plains Materials

Architecture - see Earthlodge and Tipi in Architecture section

 

Brule War Shirt

Lakota Dress

Lakota Beaded Dress

 

Porcupine Quill

Blackfoot Parfleche

Cree Saddle

 

Lakota Cradleboard with Quill

Lakota Cradleboard with Beads

Comanche Cradleboard with Beads

 

Crow, Arapooish's war shield

Lakota, Crazy Horse's war shield

Crow dance shield

 

Lakota pipe and stem

Lakota pipe

Catlinite pipe bowl, bear

Catlinite pipe bowl, bird

 

Mandan-Lakota Battle Scene

Shoshone, Chief Washakie's Buffalo Hunt

 

Kiowa, Exploits of Sun Boy

 

Sun Boy explanation

 

Dance, Howling Wolf, Cheyenne

 

Hunt, Howling Wolf, Cheyenne

 

Meeting between Osage and Cheyenne, Howling Wolf

 

Traders visit the Cheyenne, Howling Wolf

 

Buffalo Hunt

 

Train to Ft. Marion

 

 

Ghost Dance Robe, Ute

Arapaho Ghost Dance Dress

 

Ghost Dance Shirt, Randy Lee White

 


Image sources:

Berlo, Janet C. and Ruth B. Phillips.  Native North American Art.  Oxford, UK:  Oxford U.P., 1998.

Furst, Peter T. and Jill L. Furst.  North American Indian Art.   New York:  Rizzolli, 1982.

Johnson, Harmer.  Guide to the Arts of the Americas:  Pre-Columbian and American Indian Art.  New York: Rizzolli, 1992.

Penney, David W.  Native Arts of North America.  Verona:  Terrail, 1998.

Wade, Edwin L, Ed.  The Arts of the North American Indian:  Native Traditions in Evolution.  New York:  Hudson Hills Press, 1986.