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2006 July/August
By Site Editor
| Published 07/1/2006
| Antiquities , Painting , Glass , Beadwork , Pottery , Cultural Items , Sculpture , Basketry , 2006 , Seminole , Paiute , Choctaw , Chippewa , Chickasaw , Tlingit , Aleut , Hopi , Pueblo , Navajo , Cherokee
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Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (Shawnee/Seminole) has an infectious sense of mirth
and creative energy, which he pours into his award-winning paintings,
both large and small. Photo courtesy Ackerman McQueen.
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Native Sculpture Today
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 Some of the earliest Native expressions of prayer, self-identity, adornment and beauty were created in three-dimensional form from materials freely provided by the earth. Walrus ivory figures carried by hunters in the Arctic north, amulets carved in bone or wood or shaped from clay, totems reaching skyward-over the centuries, experienced hands have passed on their understanding and tools to younger hands.
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Brothers of the Seals
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 Captured with a noose pole and pinned down, the seal struggles. Carefully, three teenagers immobilize the muscular body on a restraining board. One wrong move and flashing canines will sink into the nearest hand or leg, slashing it or tearing a chunk of muscle as big as a ripe plum. Around the seal\'s neck, an ugly wound reveals a loop of emerald-green fishnet…
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1998 Fall
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Two generations later, the dreams of
Pequot elder and matriarch Elizabeth George (right) have come true. The
$196 million Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, the
largest of its kind in the nation, promises to become an important
source of information about Native peoples. George’s granddaughter,
Theresa Hayward Bell (center) is the institution’s executive director.
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1989 Spring
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Aztec customs and culture still pervade and, in many ways, dominate the
lives of two million or more Nahuatl-speaking people of central Mexico.
Photo by Michael Moore.
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2003 January/February
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The talented sculptor Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo) poses with
one of her expressive female clay creations, a work titled "The
Occasion." Photo by Craig Smith, courtesy of the Heard Museum.
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2001 May/June
By Site Editor
| Published 05/1/2001
| Navajo , Hopi , Aleut , Inuit , Iñupiat , Athabascan , Haida , Tlingit , Anishinaabe , Passamaquoddy , Penobscot , Tewa , Micmac , Ojibwe , Tsimshian , Maliseet , Diné , 2001
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Northwest Meets Southwest
Southwestern
Native artists travel to the Pacific Northwest homelands of the Haida
people, and a group of Haida artists travels to the Southwest, to trade
new methods of creating art, forging bonds of friendship and
discovering their common natures.
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