Werner Forman Archive

NATIVE AMERICANS

 

A comprehensive collection of photographs of the archaeology and material cultures of Native Americans from the Arctic to the Southwest and the Great Plains.

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Carving of a shaman.

Eskimo, Alaska.

National Museum, Denmark.

Shaman's mask.

Alaska, 19th C AD. Robert H. Lowie Museum, University of California.

Mask representing the spirit of the moon.

Eskimo, Western Alaska. Smithsonian Institution.

 

 

Flying frog headpiece. Flying frogs had great mythological significance for the Tsimshian.

Tsimshian, late 19th C. National Museum of Man, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Chilkat weaving.

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA.

A Kwakiutl house post which relates to the myth of the Bear-mother.

Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

 

Soapstone pipe. A warrior beheads his victim.

Spiro Mound, Oklahoma, 1200-1300 AD. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York.

Blanket based on a sand painting depicting a creation myth.

Navaho, 19th C AD. Schindler Collection, New York.

Canyon de Chelly, cliff dwellings.

Pueblo Indian, Arizona, from 1066 AD.

 

 

War bonnet of eagle tail feathers which belonged to the Arapaho Chief, Yellow Calf.

British Museum, London.

Hand drum with a spirit design.

Assiniboine. C. Pohrt Collection, Plains Indians Museum, BBHC, Wyoming, USA.

Ulm Piksun - buffalo jump.

Montana.

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