Happy #WorldPuffinDay !
Tufted #puffin feast bowl, c. 1900
#Tlingit culture, Sitka, Alaska
Wood, paint, fur
L 44 x W 16 x H 16 cm
Smithsonian NMAI display (14/6849)
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt #FirstNationsArt
#BirdsInArt
6 Notable Works of Narwhal Art

An ode to the unicorn of the sea.

Inuit Art Foundation
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
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
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

Yesterday: Spent a few hours at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in New York for programs related to their exhibit "Clearly Indigenous." There are no more programs on the calendar, but the exhibit will remain through May 29. The glasswork is beautiful and I highly recommend you see it if you're in the NYC area.

And if you're not? It will be traveling around the country!

#NMAI #Smithsonian #NativeAmericanArt

https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item?id=1014

Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass | National Museum of the American Indian

The NMAI fosters a richer shared human experience through a more informed understanding of Native peoples.

National Museum of the American Indian
#Murals and #StreetArt series. Richmond, Virginia, United States 2024

#NativeAmericanArt #MuralArt #UrbanArt #CulturalHeritage #PublicArt
#WorldWhaleDay 🐳:
#Whale Effigy
Chumash (California, West Coast), c.1200-1600
Steatite, shell inlay, 7.1 x 9.5 cm
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal 1950.51.Ab.9 https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/2375/
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt