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Flutes & Flutemakers
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eating and praying, conveying feeling through music is an essential
human activity. The first instrument, no doubt, was the voice. Soon
percussive and simple wind and stringed instruments echoed and mingled
with the music of the elements: the wind in the trees, the sounds of
water, and the deeper songs of rocks and the earth itself...
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2006 November/December
By Site Editor
| Published 10/31/2006
| Music , Cultural Items , Photography/Graphics , 2006 , Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs , Diné , Comanche , Quechua , Yaqui , Sioux , Seminole , Muskogee , Apache , Tlingit , Haida , Pueblo , Dakota , Blackfeet , Navajo , Cherokee
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Musician and flutemaker Bryan Akipa (Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux) seen here
holding a five-hole, old-style Dakota flute he created around 1984 from
eastern aromatic red cedar he gathered from the Badlands of South
Dakota. Photo by Don Doll, J.S.
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1996 Summer
By Site Editor
| Published 06/1/1996
| Textiles/Weaving , Basketry , 1996 , Wounaan , Diné , Comanche , Inca , Oglala , Maya , Tewa , Choctaw , Navajo
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“There I am!” Sophia Lovato proclaims proudly of her self-portrait, as
one of a group of Tewa children learning to express themselves through
their artwork.
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2003 July/August
By Site Editor
| Published 07/1/2003
| 2003 , Comanche , Tewa , Sioux , Salt River Pima-Maricopa , Iroquois , Hochunk , Choctaw , Chickasaw , Anishinaabe , Haida , Pueblo , Navajo , Apparel/Fashion
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Native
American fashion sheds its modest garments in favor of a dazzling
wardrobe of novel apparel, such as this dress in bias-cut silk by
Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo). It features Zuni Pueblo dragonfly
designs that illustrate how the insect brought rain to the Earth, with
the short top representing rain clouds and the tie the falling rain.
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