Native American Art Museums & Exhibitions Resources See also: Ethnic and Regional Museums & Exhibitions National Museum of the American Indian Thousands of Native North American works from the Northwest Coast, the Plains, and the Southwest. Frontier Photographer: Edward S. Curtis The North American Indian, a photographic essay of American Indians as they lived before contact with Anglo cultures. Institute of American Indian Arts Museum Collections of over 7,000 objects of contemporary Native American fine art from around 120 Native American Nations including paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, photography, baskets, beadwork and more. Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian Major collections of objects from the Navajo, the Rio Grande Pueblos, and other native peoples of New Mexico, including baskets, Cochiti figurines, and modern jewelry. Native American Art Exhibit Fine art exhibit by prominent Native American artists. Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Native art and culture of the American Southwest from pre-history to the present day. Glenbow Museum: Native North America View highlights from the Plains, Inuit, Northwest Coast, Metis, and Other First Peoples collections online. Lakota Winter Counts A searchable database of pictures of memorable events on calendars or "winter count images" and an introduction to Lakota history and culture, a Smithsonian online exhibition. Rainmakers from the Gods: Hopi Katsinam An online exhibition of Hopi katsina dolls from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, includes an introduction to the origins and ceremonies of the katsina religion and a thumbnail index of images. The Art Institute of Chicago An online collection of mainly Mesoamerican and Andean works including sculpture, ceramics, metalwork and textiles, also includes Native American works from California, the Plains, and the Southwest. After Columbus: Four-hundred Years of Native American Portraiture An online presentation of Native American portraiture featuring 369 prints and drawings from The New York Public Library Digital Collections. George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings An online exhibition feature presented by The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Documenting Native American Life An exhibit presented by the Dickinson Research Center at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, features photographs of American Indian life with categories including studio portraits, stereotypical images, material culture, lifeways, and Native American history. Glimpses of Navajo Life in the 1950s: Photographs by Don Blair A selection of photographs presented by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. The Hotel Astor: Hall of the American Indian Images and information from the Astor Collection at the University of Virginia Art Museum, includes photographs and artifacts gathered from across America by scientists, traders, and explorers. Images of Native Americans A virtual exhibit of photographs, illustrations, ephemera and other materials relating to Native Americans, from The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. SAM: Native & Meso-American Art View around 15 images in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum. Resources American Indian History and Culture Museums, research, publications, programs, and more from Encyclopedia Smithsonian. WWW Virtual Library - American Indians Native American artist resources on the internet. Facebook: ArtPromote Follow us on Facebook and discover amazing images and exhibitions from around the world and throughout history. Are you an artist? Join us and add your own images and links!

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