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  2. Sohrai and Khovar painting - Wikipedia

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    Other animals depicted in the painting are Indian buffalo, Indian rhinoceros, bumped cows, tigers, wild pigs, and Nilgai. Sohrai paintings are dedicated to Pashupati , ruler of creatures. The paintings consist of prominent red and black lines, the red lines representing the blood of ancestors and the black line depicting eternal death or god Shiva.

  3. Rock art of the Chumash people - Wikipedia

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    Indian Caves is located west of San Marcos Pass near San Jose Creek. The pictographs in the cave were first described by John V Frederick who teamed up with Julian Steward to have drawings of the pictographs published in his book, Petroglyphs of California and Adjoining States. The site contains several elaborate examples of zoomorphic style ...

  4. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Native American activists fought to strengthen protections against fraud which resulted in the 1990 Indian Arts and Crafts Act (IACA), which makes it "illegal to offer or display for sale, or sell, any art or craft product in a manner that falsely suggests it is Indian produced, an Indian product, or the product of a particular Indian or Indian ...

  5. Archaeological sites in Petit Jean State Park - Wikipedia

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    Petit Jean #4 (3CH125) is a pictograph depicting a beaver. [8] Petit Jean #5 (3CN126) is a highly abstract pictograph where it is unclear exactly what it represents. [ 9 ] Petit Jean #6 (3CN127) has rayed pictographs that are stylistically similar to those found in the Pictograph Cave in Stone County , a connection that is not well understood.

  6. Winter count - Wikipedia

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    Winter Count, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC; Lakota Winter Counts: An Online Exhibit by National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (after clicking winter count site link, click on "View HTML Version" in lower right) Waniyetu Wowapi (Winter Count) - Reliable information and interesting lesson plans.

  7. Indian Paintings - Wikipedia

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    Indian Paintings is a historic archaeological site located near Maiden Spring, Tazewell County, Virginia.These pictographs are on a rock face high on Paint Lick Mountain. . Stretched in a horizontal line along the irregular exposure is a series of simple images representing thunderbirds, human figures, deer, arrows, trees, and the sun, all painted in a red medium using iron o

  8. Chumash Indian Museum - Wikipedia

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    Chumash Indian Museum is a Native American Interpretive Center in northeast Thousand Oaks, California. It is the site of a former Chumash village, known as Sap'wi (meaning "House of the Deer"). [1] It is located in Oakbrook Regional Park, a 432-acre park which is home to a replica of a Chumash village and thousand year-old Chumash pictographs ...

  9. Plains hide painting - Wikipedia

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    Plains Indian male artists use a system of pictographic signs, characterized by two-dimensionality, readily recognizable by other members of their tribe. [7] This picture writing could be used for anything from directions and maps to love letters. Images were streamlined and backgrounds were minimal for clarity.