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Navajo rugs are woven by Navajo women today from Navajo-Churro sheep, other breeds of sheep, or commercial wool. Designs can be pictorial or abstract, based on historic Navajo, Spanish, Asian, or Persian designs. 20th century Navajo weavers include Clara Sherman and Hosteen Klah, who co-founded the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.
Balsamorhiza sagittata, used as food and medicine by many Native American groups, such as the Nez Perce, Kootenai, Cheyenne, and Salish. [23] Baptisia australis – the Cherokee would use the roots in teas as a purgative or to treat tooth aches and nausea, while the Osage made an eyewash with the plant. [24]
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.
The "golden age" of Mexican feather work lasted until the very beginning of the 17th-century, when it declined because the old masters disappeared. At this time, demand for the work declined as well, because the Spanish began to disdain indigenous handcrafts and oil painting became preferred for the production of religious images. [38] [55]
In Hawaii, Sinclair produced her most notable work Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian islands. [7] [8] This was the first book published with colour images of Hawaiian flowering plants. [9] After her marriage, Sinclair lived with her husband in Kiekie on the island of Nii'hau and later in Makaweli on the island of Kauai. [10]
At 25, Genea Richardson lived in a 400-square-foot concrete cell, along with seven other women, four bunk beds, four lockers, a toilet and a shower. ... but it is full of life. Plants line the ...
Areas of Indigenous peoples in South and Central America at the time of European colonization (in Spanish) (from Indigenous peoples of the Americas) Image 41 Indigenous people at a farm plantation in Minas Gerais in present-day Brazil , c. 1824 (from Indigenous peoples of the Americas )
In Indigenous American companion planting, maize (Zea mays), beans (wild beans and vetches [3] spp.), and squash (Cucurbita pepo) are planted close together. The maize and beans are often planted together in mounds formed by hilling soil around the base of the plants each year; squash is typically planted between the mounds. [ 4 ]