Crow Indian Beadwork

Native American culture was a great influence on newly introduced western art when settlers first came to North America. Not only did Native Americans have their own style of art, sculpture, basket weaving, and other fine arts. Their artistic styles helped influence some European art and gave them a different outlook on not only art itself, but a brand new culture that they have not seen before. This paper will talk about the different styles of Native American art and compare it to European art styles and artist, as well as going into detail about how their culture influenced artistic styles.

Native American basketry is a difficult task and it takes a lot of skill. It was utilized for many purposes such as gathering, cooking, storing and drinking. I believe the dealers lore led to the transformation of artwork due to the amount of skill that was put into weaving baskets. These are now displayed

The culture of chickasaw,the chickasaw had a really rich tradition steeped in the arts From music composition and performance art to painting, sculpting and writing, Chickasaw artists excel in a number of both contemporary and traditional artistic forms of

The crow religion is ingenious.Like most native american tribes the crow had a ceremony called the sun dance.They also had a ceremony about tobacco.The crows believed that they were made by old man coyote.Four ducks flew over old man coyote as he was wandering the wet and cold world.He asked everyone to bring him some

According to Source 2 it states, “Sandals woven from yucca fiber were typically footwear of the Mesa Verde people. Yucca fibers were boiled or soaked and then pounded to expose the inner fibers. These fibers were also used to produce rope, snares, mats, baskets, belts, and much more.” This shows how they used Yucca fibers not only for footwear but for other things such as producing rope, snares, mats, baskets, and belts. According to Source 2 it also states, "The Ancestral Puebloans were also artists and traders-trading with a network of tribes to bring shells such as these from the Gulf of California to to wear as ornamental jewelry.” This shows that they had a skill for jewelry and were able to use it for

The northern tribes used bones and deer antlers to make knives, scrapers, awls, fishing tools, whistles, and pendants. The first tribes denpended on agriculture were those that lived on the Atlantic Costal Plain. They learned how to make pottery and cloth. The cloth was woven with thread made from soft layers of splint baskets. They made musical instruments like pipers, rattles, drums, nd they were played during ruitals and ceremonies dances. They built two types of houses, long houses, and wigwams. The first type was formed by bending poles into a cone or dome shape and by tying the poles together with vines. The frame was covered with woven mats, bark, or hide . These people grew corn, squash, beans, pumpkins, and tobacco.

Apache jewelry is very well know for it’s usage of very precious metals including silver, brass, gold, and platinum. They also are known to have used the bones and shells that they found. Apaches would make chokers out of bones they found. When they used silver they often engraved things into the metal. The symbols were usually important to their tribes. Another common jewelry is called the Apache tears, it is composed of a black obsidian or onyx. Dictionary.com states that the material obsidian means, “ A volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark buttransparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.”

Human beings, desire to maintain a connection with the past is achieved through the languages spoken, the various cultures practiced, and sadly through acquiring of cultural property by the means of grave robbing. Native Americans wanted justice for these past mistreatments and control over their history. According to Chip Colwell, campaigning, repatriation of indigenous artifacts began in the 1960s by indigenous activism. Finally, on November 16, 1990, The United States Government passed The Native American Graves Protection and Reparation Act. NAGPRA summarizes that museums must conduct an inventory of all native American cultural artifacts and remains. (Native) In addition, Museums send the inventories to federally recognized tribes, in

“The quilting bee soon flourished to an even greater extent than it had in New England” (Hechtlinger). Many quilts that were made in this time are now hanging in museums for all to see the beautiful needlework of the pioneer women. The native Americans did not have all of the advantages in technology like the pioneers did. Native American women had to grow or barter goods such as cotton, twine, and dye to create such beautiful quilts, which also, are some of the most beautiful works done that are hung in museums today. Quilting was a big technique that the Native Americans borrowed from the Europeans.

The Creek Indian Tribe created art by using items they found in nature. They used it to tell a story or represent history. Each item that was made had a purpose and was put to use. Many of the items were created just before the Green Corn Festival.

Ojibway Indian men usually wore breechcloths and leggings. The women wore dresses and kept their hair in neat braids. Their shoes were called moccasins. They were made out of deer or moose hide. Customarily, they wore leather headbands with feathers in the back. The Ojibway Indians made pictures, belts, purses, and other objects out of beads. They loved to use wampum beads in their artwork. Wampum beads are purple and white beads made from shells. The Ojibway Indians make beadart by sewing the beads onto leather so they can be placed individually or sewn into strips. They make the strips by stitching the beads into a string. This is usually done by hand or sometimes with a bowloom. Beadart takes years to master and is very time consuming for the Ojibway Indians. The Ojibway also made dream catchers out of sticks and feathers. They believed that the dream catchers would protect them from bad dreams.

The Crow including Absaroka, are Native Americans, Today, they are enrolled in the federally recognized Crow Tribe of Montana. I found the most interesting thing is about their history and cultural, especially for dance and clothing, and I love it.

DOI. (n.d.). Indian Arts and Crafts Board . Retrieved November 27, 2016, from U.S. Department of the Interior: https://www.doi.gov/iacb/act/

Native American art is a profoundly expressive culture that has been a way of life for so many Native Americans. Native American art history has advanced over thousands of years and is composed of several idiosyncratic styles from the differentiating cultures of diverse Indian tribes. From Navajo to Hopi, each tribe has a particular history, which consists of many types of Native American arts including beadwork, jewelry, weaving, pottery, carvings, kachinas, masks, totem poles, and more. To truly understand Native American art, we will explore Native American art history, its subjects, and if Native American art has a spiritual connection to it.

Art is a very realistic aspect among the Native Americans. In fact, what we call primitive art is actually symbolic objects from the process of a sacred ceremony. This concept is one not easily understood. Furthermore, this concept by Sam Gill is explained in Native American Religions. Sam Gill shows that Native American Art is different in meaning because of its contents then what modern societies consider art. Nonliterate people produce objects of beauty through ceremonial performances and rituals that keeps the cosmos in order, while modern societies over look these factors.