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  2. Six limbs (Indian painting) - Wikipedia

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    3rd or 4th century CE Kamasutra, Vatsyayana, 13th-century Jayamangala commentary of Yashodhara, Bendall purchase 1885 CE.Kamasutra elaborate the idea of Shadanga. [6]The concept of the Six Limbs of Indian Painting, or Ṣaḍaṅga, finds its roots in ancient Indian texts and treatises on art and aesthetics, reflecting a holistic approach to artistic creation.

  3. Plains hide painting - Wikipedia

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    Buffalo hide painting of Pawnees battling the Villasur expedition. Traditionally, men painted representational art. [3] [6] They painted living things. [2]Plains Indian male artists use a system of pictographic signs, characterized by two-dimensionality, readily recognizable by other members of their tribe. [7]

  4. Ledger art - Wikipedia

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    Kiowa ledger art drawing possibly depicting the Buffalo Wallow battle in 1874, a fight between Southern Plains Indians and the U.S. Army during the Red River War.. Ledger art is narrative drawing or painting on paper or cloth, predominantly practiced by Plains Indian, but also from the Plateau and Great Basin.

  5. Plains Indian warfare - Wikipedia

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    United States Army Indian Scouts and trackers had served the US government since the Civil War. During the Indian Wars, the Pawnee people, the Crow people and the Tonkawa people allied with the American cavalry against their old rivals the Apache and Sioux. [32] Sgt. I-See-O of the Kiowa people was still in active service during the World War I ...

  6. Thanjavur painting - Wikipedia

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    Thanjavur painting is a classical South Indian painting style, originating in the town of Thanjavur (anglicized as Tanjore) in Tamil Nadu.The art form draws its immediate resources and inspiration from way back about 1600 AD, a period when the Nayakas of Thanjavur under the suzerainty of the Vijayanagara Rayas encouraged art—chiefly, classical dance and music—as well as literature, both in ...

  7. Indian martial arts - Wikipedia

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    The oldest recorded organized unarmed fighting art in the Indian subcontinent is malla-yuddha or combat-wrestling, codified into four forms in the Vedic Period. Stories describing Krishna report that he sometimes engaged in wrestling matches where he used knee strikes to the chest, punches to the head, hair pulling, and strangleholds. [11]

  8. Mughal weapons - Wikipedia

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    Panjmukh - Five-headed spear used by the people of Gujarat. Lange - A Mughal lance with a four-cornered iron head and a hollow shaft. Garhiya - May be pike, javelin or spear; Alam - A spear (properly a standard or banner) Kont - One type of spear; Gandasa - A kind of bill-hook or pole-axe with a steel chopper attached to a long pole.

  9. List of types of spears - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of types of spears found worldwide throughout history. Used equally in melee and thrown. Migration Period spear; Normally melee. ...