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The Tlingit clans of Southeast Alaska, in the United States, are one of the Indigenous cultures within Alaska.The Tlingit people also live in the Northwest Interior of British Columbia, Canada, and in the southern Yukon Territory.
Kuna tribal members of Panama and Colombia are famous for their molas, cotton panels with elaborate geometric designs created by a reverse appliqué technique. Designs originated from traditional skin painting designs but today exhibit a wide range of influences, including pop culture. Two mola panels form a blouse, but when a Kuna woman is ...
Hoe Leiomano - Paddle, shark tooth weapon; Ihe - Short spear with barbed edges or straight point (up to 9 ft or 2.7 m staff) Kaʻane - Cuerda (strangling cord) Koʻokoʻo - Staffs (long and short) Koʻokoʻo Loa (6 ft or 1.8 m staff) Koʻokoʻo Pōkole (4 ft or 1.2 m staff) Kuʻekuʻe Lima Leiomanō - Knuckle duster weapon; Leiomanō - Shark ...
Nanyiee (Wolf)—Also represented by the brown bear, the killer-whale, and the shark. This family originated near the headwaters of Taku River , moved towards the ocean and settling among the Stikine Tlingit ; and then ascended the Stikine River and became a family of the Tahltan.
This early art practice includes wood carvings, petroglyphs, kākau (Hawaiian tattooing), kapa (barkcloth; called kapa in Hawaiian, and tapa elsewhere in the Pacific), kapa kilohana (decorated barkcloth), ipu pā wehe (decorated gourds), kāhili (featherwork), lauhala weaving (weaving, plait, or braiding leaves), and leiomano (shark-tooth ...
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 .
The shark cost Hirst £6,000 [4] and the total cost of the work was £50,000. [5] Hirst asked Doris Lockhart for a loan to cover the cost of shipping the shark from Australia, but she gave him the required amount. In return, Hirst invited Lockhart to choose anything she liked from his studio, and she selected a piece called The Only Way is Up. [6]
Totem poles, a type of Northwest Coast art. Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.