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  2. 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 .

  3. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Indigenous American arts have had a long and complicated relationship with museum representation since the early 1900s. In 1931, The Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts was the first large scale show that held Indigenous art on display. Their portrayal in museums grew more common later in the 1900s as a reaction to the Civil Rights Movement.

  4. List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous ...

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    Probably from agutí, agoutí, or acutí, names for the animal, via French. In Brazilian Portuguese acutí is pronounced acuchí. [citation needed] Agouti (Dasyprocta) rodent: Guarani or Tupi: From agutí, agoutí, or acutí, names for the animal. [6] Ahytherium † ground sloth: Tupi: From Ahy ("sloth") and Greek therion ("beast") [7] Aivukus ...

  5. Anishinaabe clan system - Wikipedia

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    The clans, based mainly on animals, were instrumental in traditional occupations, intertribal relations, and marriages. Today, the clan remains an important part of Anishinaabe identity. Each clan is forbidden from harming its representation animal by any means, as it is a bad omen to do so.

  6. Tlingit clans - Wikipedia

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    The Tlingit clans have names whose meaning typically reflects the foundation story of the clan. The clans are usually referred to in English by the name of their primary crest, such as Deisheetaan being called "Beaver Clan".

  7. Pithora (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Birds, animals, trees, etc are also found. Similar to many other types of tribal paintings, daily activities of rural life such as farming, hunting, ploughing, and exuberance in festivities like dancing and singing in revelry, depicting social cohesion are exhibited through colors.

  8. Saura painting - Wikipedia

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    These paintings draw upon tribal folklore and have ritualistic importance. Ikons make extensive use of symbolically pregnant icons that mirror the quotidian chores of the Sauras. People, horses, elephants, the sun and the moon and the tree of life are recurring motifs in these ikons. Ikons were originally painted on the walls of the Saura's ...

  9. Alaska Native art - Wikipedia

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    These materials include fish skin, caribou hide, polar bear fur, whale baleen (baleen basketry), old ivory and seal (all parts of each animal are normally used somehow for tool-making if not consumed). [2] Masks were often made for ceremonial purposes, bringing the people, animals and spirits together in one being. [2]