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These selections provide a full range of Native American arts from rock paintings, to ledger drawings, traditional crafts, and painting in modern media.

 

 

Southwestern US Rock Art Gallery. Primarily from Utah.
http://net.indra.com/~dheyser/rockart.html

 

 
 

Kiowa drawings at the National Museum of the American Indian by Candace greene.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/kiowa/kiowa.htm


 
 

Plains Indian Ledger Art Project:
http://weber.ucsd.edu/Depts/Ethnic/fac/rfrank/Ledger.Project.Web/Ledger.Home.html#DescriptionHm


 
 

Baskets, Bags & Dolls: Art of the Plateau Indians
at the Riverside Municipal Museum
http://www.ci.riverside.ca.us/museum/plateau/plateau.html

 

 
 

Understanding and appreciating Native art through idea, integrity, emotion, intimacy, movement, composition and vocabulary. The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art. Exhibition at Heye Center, NYC. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian.
http://www.americanindian.si.edu/exhibitions/first_american_art/firstamericanart.html

 

 
Historical Paintings
 
 
Medicine Painter: George Catlin on the Upper Missouri. 1832.
University of Cinncinati Press on-line Exhibit
http://www.ucdp.uc.edu/exhibits/catlin/catweb.html
 
 


McKenney & Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Unniversity of Cinncinati Digital Press Exhibit
http://www.ucdp.uc.edu/McKenney.htmlw

 

 
Frederick Remington   Frederick Remington: The Color of Night. Gilcrease Museum special exhibit of 1900 to 1909 paintings capturing Native American scenes at night. Highlights this notable western artist's career with examples in painting and sculpture. http://www.gilcrease.org/FredericRemington/fr_about_1.html  
 


600 paintings in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum. George Catlin, Mckinney
and Hall, etc.
American Art: Native American Life and Culture.
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/cgi-bin/search/isearch.pl?DB=pcdb_images&FORMAT=list&FPASS=N&FHIT=1&ESET=RECORD&QUERY=SUBJECT/indian

 
Contemporary Art
 
 


WWW Virtual Library - American Indians
Index of Native American Artists on the Internet
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAartists.html

 
 
Native American Art in a wide variety.
http://www.nativeamericainc.com/
 
Major Web Site
 
 
Provides instructions, techniques and history in the Native American use of beads, feathers, clay, leather, metal, plants, quills, and stones. http://www.nativetech.org/
 

(c) Dennis Wiedman, Ph.D.
Home page:
http://www.fiu.edu/~wiedmand


Send comments or suggestions to:
Dennis.Wiedman@fiu.edu

Florida International University

Updated: April 28, 2004