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The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world—approximately 266,000 catalog records (825,000 items) representing over 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas. Ranging from ancient Paleo-Indian points ...
Native American art, the visual art of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas, often called American Indians. For a further discussion of the visual art of the Americas produced in the period after European contact, see Latin American art.
Across the United States, Native American artists are making trailblazing art. These contemporary creators connect Native histories with the present moment. Learn more about their work along with artists who came before them.
Features over 18,000 objects by artists from over 250 Indigenous nations, encapsulating multiple artistic traditions from ancient times to the present. Collectively, these artworks comprise one of the strongest and most comprehensive collections of Indigenous art in the world.
SAAM’s collection includes many remarkable artworks that reflect the profound and longstanding contributions of Native and Indigenous artists in the United States. SAAM is committed to collecting, contextualizing, and sharing art by Native makers as critical to American culture and identity.
Spanning more than 10,000 years of Indigenous visual expression in the Americas, these works cross boundaries of region, period and medium, and emphasize the continuum of creativity and character of change that undergird Native American art.
Indigenous American visual arts include portable arts, such as painting, basketry, textiles, or photography, as well as monumental works, such as architecture, land art, public sculpture, or murals. Some Indigenous art forms coincide with Western art forms; however, some, such as porcupine quillwork or birchbark biting are unique to the Americas.
Who does get to define Native American art? Words like “authentic” and “traditional” are “loaded with a lot of assumptions and stereotypes,” says Christina Burke, curator of Native ...
When considering art made by Native Americans in the American Southwest, the ubiquitous terms of “traditional” and “authentic” are often left undefined by scholars and collectors. Yet, they are also terms by which Europeans and non-Native peoples place value on an object.
The Complete Guide to Traditional Native American Beadwork: A Definitive Study of Authentic Tools, Materials, Techniques, and Styles. New York: Collier Books; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993. Mowat, Linda, and Howard Morphy and Penny Dransart (eds.). Basketmakers: Meaning and Form in Native ...