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  2. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    While the oldest wooden artifacts are as much as 10,000 years old, carved and painted wooden objects are known only from the past 2,000 years. Animal effigies and face masks have been found at a number of sites in Florida. Animal effigies dating to between 200 and 600 were found in a mortuary pond at Fort Center, on the west side of Lake ...

  3. Tribal art - Wikipedia

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    Tribal art is the visual arts and material culture of indigenous peoples. Also known as non-Western art or ethnographic art , or, controversially, primitive art , [ 1 ] tribal arts have historically been collected by Western anthropologists, private collectors, and museums, particularly ethnographic and natural history museums .

  4. Photography by Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Lee Marmon (Laguna Pueblo), next to his most famous photograph, "White Man's Moccasins". Photography by indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form that began in the late 19th century and has expanded in the 21st century, including digital photography, underwater photography, and a wide range of alternative processes.

  5. Effigy mound - Wikipedia

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    An effigy mound is a raised pile of earth built in the shape of a stylized animal, symbol, religious figure, human, or other figure. The Effigy Moundbuilder culture is primarily associated with the years 550–1200 CE during the Late Woodland Period , although radiocarbon dating has placed the origin of certain mounds as far back as 320 BCE.

  6. Zuni fetishes - Wikipedia

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    The primary non-Native source for academic information on Zuni fetishes is the Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology submitted in 1881 by Frank Hamilton Cushing and posthumously published as Zuni Fetishes in 1966, with several later reprints.

  7. Alaska Native art - Wikipedia

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    Objects were utilitarian, although decorated in ways that conveyed images of spiritual or physical activity. It was not until Europeans and Asians first made contact with the indigenous people of coastal Alaska in the 17th century that such non-utilitarian art objects began to be traded in exchange for metal implements, cloth, and foodstuffs ...

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  9. Rock art of the Chumash people - Wikipedia

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    Representational images include squares, circles and triangles, zigzags, crisscrosses, parallel lines, and pinwheels., [7] Grant noted that in settled villages, abstract paintings were prominent, while the areas occupied by bands of hunting people reveal representational images.