Mastodawn

For #NationalCoyoteDay :
Rick Bartow (Mad River Band of Wiyot Indians, Humboldt County, CA, 1946-2016)
Segyp Kas'Ket Suit Taup ( #Coyote Where Are You Going), 1997
Offset lithograph on paper
22 × 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
On display @ Biggs Museum of American Art (2023.9.1)
#IndigenousArt
#NativeAmericanArt

Art History Animalia 10h ago

For #NationalCoyoteDay on #MosaicMonday :
#Coyote Head
Toltec, Early Post-Classic (900-1250 CE)
Offering of the El Corral Shrine, Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico
Ceramic vessel with shell mosaic and bone, H 13 x W 9.6 cm
INAH https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/guerrero-coyote
#IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt

Art History Animalia 10h ago

For #WorldBearDay 🐻:
#Bear mask, 1973-4
Boyd Owle (Eastern Band of Cherokee, b. c. 1955), Cherokee, North Carolina, USA
Wood, paint, metal wire
Smithsonian NMAI collection
#NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

Art History Animalia 1d ago

#WorldWaterDay 💧:
Christi Belcourt (Canada, Métis, b.1966)
The Great Mystery of Water (Manitou Giigoonh #2 ), 2016
Giclée style print on archival paper
15 1/2" x 20 1/2"
🆔 Walleye (Sander vitreus)
https://www.facebook.com/share/17AgXcaa1R/?mibextid=wwXIfr
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt #CanadianArt

Art History Animalia 1d ago

Happy #InternationalDayOfTheSeal ! 🦭
#Seal figure, 1968
artist: Melvin Olanna
culture: Inupiat Eskimo
location: Shishmaref, Alaska, USA
Yellow cedar wood
L 32 x W 18.5 x H 20.5 cm
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (25/6106)
#NativeAmericanArt #FirstNationsArt #IndigenousArt

dillyd 5d ago

This print caught my eye, and of course it was Richard Shorty, the same artist who I already have a few prints and an original by. I thought the Fediverse would appreciate this one.
#quorb #RichardShorty #IndigenousArt

iolaire Mar 16

#Murals and #StreetArt series. Richmond, Virginia, United States 2024

#MuralArt #IndigenousArt #CulturalMural #UrbanArt

Art History Animalia Mar 15

#Baturday 🦇:
Cupisnique artist; Tembladera,
North Coast, Peru
Bottle with leaf-nosed #bat head, 1200-800 BCE
Ceramic, cinnabar
On display at The Met (1978.412.210)
#IndigenousArt #AndeanArt #PeruvianArt #AncientArt

Art History Animalia Mar 12

#Woodensday :
Asmat artist(s); Indonesia, West Papua, Erma village
Jifoi (bowl), mid-20th c.
Wood, paint
On display at the Met (1978.412.1177)
#Parrots #BirdsInArt #IndigenousArt #AustralasianArt
ℹ️ ufir ( Palm #Cockatoo ) head as the prow; fruit-eating birds = headhunting symbolism (see label)

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Mar 8

While hiking in New Mexico a while back, I saw these Native American pictographs. Staring at them and reflecting was mesmerizing.

Fun fact: people colloquially use “petroglyphs” to describe paintings on rock walls. But that specifically refers to etchings, not paintings. “Pictographs” is the term for the latter.

#Art #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #Pictographs #Petroglyphs #IndigenousArt