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  2. Native American fashion - Wikipedia

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    In 1981, Margaret Wood (Navajo/Seminole) of Arizona, known for fashion design as well as for her quilts, [45] [46] published Native American Fashion: Modern Adaptations of Traditional Designs. [47] The book was the first treatment of contemporary Native American fashion and remains the sole in-depth treatment of the subject. [48]

  3. Indigenous fashion of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Modifying traditional clothing styles, he altered components like necklines and sleeve length to create more contemporary fashions. [24] Around the same time, Eliana Paco Paredes ( Aymara ) of Bolivia began to design fashions based on the traditional costumes of the cholitas , using wool or aguayo fabrics, but fusing them with lace or silk and ...

  4. Traditional Native American clothing - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Native American clothing is the apparel worn by the indigenous peoples of the region that became the United States before the coming of Europeans. Because the terrain, climate and materials available varied widely across the vast region, there was no one style of clothing throughout, [1] but individual ethnic groups or tribes often had distinctive clothing that can be identified ...

  5. Inuit clothing - Wikipedia

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    Since the 1990s, efforts by Inuit organizations to revive historical cultural skills and combine them with modern clothing-making techniques have led to a resurgence of traditional Inuit clothing, particularly for special occasions, and the development of contemporary Inuit fashion as its own style within the larger Indigenous American fashion ...

  6. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    [7] Aguayos are clothes woven from camelid fibers with geometric designs that Andean women wear and use for carrying babies or goods. Inca textiles Awasaka was the most common grade of weaving produced by the Incas of all the ancient Peruvian textiles, this was the grade most commonly used in the production of Inca clothing.

  7. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    In the past, Western art historians have considered use of Western art media or exhibiting in international art arena as criteria for "modern" Native American art history. [47] Native American art history is a new and highly contested academic discipline, and these Eurocentric benchmarks are followed less and less today.

  8. Squaw dress - Wikipedia

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    The squaw dress also shows influence from the New Look in fashion. [7] Using the term "squaw" to name the dresses evoked a connection to Native American culture. [20] In addition, the Native American roots of the design made the dresses seem like uniquely "American" clothing items. [1] The dress also became synonymous with the Southwest. [13]

  9. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary weavers are more likely to learn the craft from a Dine College course, as opposed to family. [16] Contemporary Navajo textiles have suffered commercially from two sets of pressures: extensive investment in pre-1950 examples and price competition from foreign imitations. [17] Modern Navajo rugs command high prices. [18]

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