Native American Rock Carvings and Drawings Native American paintingsand cave drawings, which used graphic symbols as words or phrases, date back to before 3000 BCE. Natural pigments were used to paint symbols on rock surfaces. The pigments were sourced from iron oxides, white or yellow clays, so...
Native American Artist, Choctaw Artist, Choctaw Art, Original Native American paintings and colored pencil drawings, limited edition prints and notecards depicting Choctaw culture, language and games by Choctaw artist Gwen Coleman Lester
Mother Earth's Creations, LLC sponsors an Educational Display Booth within the Native American Category of the Agricultural Building at the Fryeburg Fair (Maine State Fair) in Fryeburg Maine. The Fair is cancelled this year due to the virus... If you would like to enter a Native Style Craft...
Native American artifacts have remained out of public view but still very much in the hands of some of the nation’s largest museums some six months after institutions closed and covered exhibits in response to new federal regulations.
Archives building and are unavailable for use in the Central Research Room due to their fragility and significance. More than 50 of the treaties are written on large sheets of parchment; several contain drawings, maps andwampum, or decorative beads used as currency in some Native Am...
He said the tribes, in Oklahoma, will be seeking from the New York museum a sketchbook by the Cheyenne warrior Little Finger Nail that contains his drawings and illustrations from battle. The book, which is in storage and not on display, was plucked...
referred to as Henderson Ledger Artists. The ledger was owned by Frank Henderson, and many of the drawings are attributed to him. Living at the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from age 17 to 18, Henderson was inspired to record American Indian history and culture in the ledg...
The bear plays a significant role in Native American lore. Learn about the history of Native American bears right here.
Southwestern Native American pottery has a legacy dating back at least 3,500 years. It's still a mystery as to how someone discovered that clay, when heated to a high enough temperature, would transform into a solid, brittle object that holds its shape. Some scholars claim the technique was...
Greely's perspective was that American Indians were uncivilized, had no work ethic, and were examples of the "lowest and rudest ages of human existence." He also believed that the more Christian American Indians became, the more civilized America would become. The significance of this perspective...