Art of Native Americans 

Archaeological|Historical| Baskets|Dolls |Masks | Plains Parfleche | Pottery| Quillwork | Rugs |Sandpaintings | Silver | Contemporary Exhibits

Archaeological Images

• Tools of the Natives of Southeastern US
  Florida, Georgia
  
  
• Pre-Conquest America
  
  
• Pictograph Writing
  

Historical Images 

• 16th Century European Engravings (de Bry)
  
  
• Feathers & Fans
  
  
• Plains Indian Drawings 1865-1935: Pages from a Visual History
  Janet Catherine Berlo The first generation of artists to move from buffalo skin to paper.
  
  
• Language of the Robe: American Indian Trade Blankets
  Robert W. Kapoun, Charles J. Lohrmann the history of trade blankets, robe

Parfleche 

• Parfleche: Basic Definition
  Longer Definition (Cheyenne)
  


• American Indian Parfleche: A Tradition of Abstract Painting
  Gaylord Torrence Plains tribes women created brightly painted rawhide containers (rectangular or tubular in shape to carry their family possessions., principally between 1750 and 1880

• Arapaho and Cheyenne Parafleche Collection for sale $$$$

• Contemporary use (The Barcelona Book Fair in 1997)
  in Catalan!

• Art History Lesson
  From the Getty Institute
  
  

• Contemporary Lakota
  Beautiful Web picture.

• Shoshone Parfleche
  Lovely examples with detail

Quillwork 

• Introduction to Quillwork
  An outstanding site from NativeTech
  
  
• Quillwork
  Paint and Knife cases made to order from the Flathead Reservation
  
  
• Native Quillwork patterns
  (for grownups)

Masks 

• Yupik Masks
  

• Yupik Masks in Culture

Baskets  

• Columbia River Basketry: Gift of the Ancestors, Gift of the Earth
  Mary Dodds Schlick Columbia river (Washington state) woven textiles and baskets. Out of print.
  
  

• Collecting Native American Baskets
  An excellent guide for the beginning collector.

• Passamoquoddy Baskets

• California Yurok and Karok Baskets

• Yurok cooking baskets
  
  
• Weaving a California Tradition (A Native American Basketmaker)
  Linda Yamane, Dugan Aguilar (Photographer). Ages 9-12.
  
  
• Northeastern Baskets
  Some antique baskets.

Pottery 

• Dirt for Making Things : An Apprenticeship in Maricopa Pottery Janet Stoeppelmann, Francis Moss (Contributor)
  
  
• To Touch the Past: The Painted Pottery of the Mimbres People
  J. J. Brody, Rina Swentzell (Contributor), Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum The culture of a remarkable culture that flourished 1,000 years ago in New Mexico, and produced blindingly beautiful pottery

Rugs  

• One Hundred Years of Navajo Rugs
  Marian E. Rodee
  
  
• Navajo Rug Styles
  (Map by region)

Silver 

• Navajo Silver
  

Sandpaintings

• Sandpaintings (Navajo Coop)

Dolls 

• Kachina Doll : The Art of Hopi Carvers
  Helga Teiwes
  
  
• Following the Sun and Moon : Hopi Kachina Tradition
  Alph H. Secakuku. Hopi Kachina dolls. (Out of print).

Art Exhibits and References 

• Native American Artists Today
  On-line collection representing contemporary talent
  
  
• Native Art Exhibits (US inventory).
  
  
• Library of Congress Exhibit on Columbus
  
  
• Native North American Art (Oxford History of Art)
  Janet Catherine Berlo, Ruth Philip. Not great but a reasonably priced history with good quality color.