In most of aboriginal North America before the arrival of Europeans, the most important outside cultural influences came from the centers of Indian civilization in central and southern Mexico: North America was culturally peripheral to these centers in very much the same way as northern and western Europe was for millenia culturally peripheral to the centers of civilization in Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.
But, by the time Europeans arrived on the Northwest Coast, there had developed in that region a radically different and original way of life, most readily recognized by its unique and powerful art, a way of life which owed almost Living traditions of, by, and for the people. Browse By. Past Programs. Pottery from the Southwest region includes the most famous of styles due to its colorful designs, figures, distinctive forms, and relative abundance in comparison to pottery from other regions.
Pueblo and Zuni pottery are good examples of this old artistic style. The Pueblo tradition is represented in the store, with a focus on Maria Blackware from San Ildefonso. Northwest Coast Indians were the most prominent carvers among North American tribes and are to credit for beautiful totem poles, wooden boxes, masks, and speaking sticks.
Totem poles are an ancient tradition which depict familiar legends, clan lineages, or notable events. Typically carved from red cedar and exposed to the rainforest climate of the Northwest, few examples exist from prior to With the introduction of steel and European wood cutting tools in the early 19 th century totems grew larger and more abundant as a means of cultural expression.
Wooden boxes and masks were often carved for ceremonial purposes and decorated with iconic designs of the Northwest Coast tribes. These are Native American carved and like most pieces in the store, last quarter 19th century to first quarter 20th century, with a few newer and a few older.
Carvings also include Northwest Coast masks, speaking sticks, boxes and fetishes. Prairie and Plains carvings include canes, speaking sticks and flag markers. Weapons were used by Native Americans to hunt game and to battle with other tribes and white settlers. Typical weapons include clubs, hatchets, knives, spears, atlatls, and bows. As early as , some tribes began to adopt firearms for both hunting and warfare. However white-settler controlled supplies of gunpowder and firearms ensured that traditional weapons were not abandoned.
Included are bows and arrows, arrowheads, quiver cases, Native embellished rifles and scabbards, knives, beaded sheaths, ball clubs, root clubs, spiked gun stock clubs, war axes, and pipe tomahawks. Shopping cart 0 items in cart There are no items in your cart. Edit cart Checkout. Cart 0. Cowboy and Western Antique Firearms U. Focus Areas: Baskets. Horse Gear. Baskets Not only functional aspects of everyday life, baskets were also pieces of technical and aesthetic achievement which exhibit both richness and variety.
Beadwork The earliest beads were carved from natural materials like shells, coral, ivory, bones turquoise and other stones. Clothing Distinctive styles of dress identified the various tribes of North America which clad themselves with unique tribal clothes, headdresses, and ornamentation. Parfleche The term parfleche was a word coined by French trappers for the hard, rawhide containers used by the Plains Indians. Pipes Pipe smoking took a ritual and often religious importance in many North American tribes.
Pottery Pottery pieces are some of the oldest surviving elements of Native American culture. Totems and Carvings Northwest Coast Indians were the most prominent carvers among North American tribes and are to credit for beautiful totem poles, wooden boxes, masks, and speaking sticks.
Frank H. Cushing [Footnote: The Century, Vol. XXVI, p. Eight players went into a kli-wi-lain to fast, and four days later issued forth, bearing four large wooden tubes, a ball of stone, and a bundle of thirty-six counting straws. Larger and noisier it grew, until it became a surging, clamorous, black mass.
Gradually two piles of fabrics,--vessels, silver ornaments, necklaces, embroideries, and symbols representing horses, cattle and sheep--grow to large proportions. Women gathered on the roofs around, wildly stretching forth articles for betting, until one of the presiding priests called out a brief message.
The crowd became silent. A booth was raised, under which two of ho players retired; and when it was removed the four tubes were standing on the mound of sand. A song and dance began. One by one three of the four opposing players were summoned to guess under which tube the ball was hidden. At each guess the cries of the opposing party became deafening, and the mock struggles approached the violence of combat.
The last guesser found the ball; and as he victoriously carried the latter and the tubes across to his own mound, his side scored ten. The process was repeated. The second guesser found the ball; his side scored fifteen setting the others back five. The counts, numbered one hundred; but so complicated were the winnings and losings on both sides, with each guess of either, that hour after hour the game went on, and night closed in.
Fires were built in the plaza, cigarettes were lighted, but still the game continued. Noisier and noisier grew the dancers; more and more insulting and defiant their songs and epithets to the opposing crowd, until they fairly gnashed their teeth at one another, but no blows. Day dawned upon the still uncertain contest; nor was it until the sun again touched the western horizon, that the hoarse, still defiant voices died away, and the victorious party bore off their mountains of gifts from the gods.
Among the tribes of the East, if it had a home at all, it was practised in such an inobtrusive way as not to attract the attention of writers who have described their habits and customs.
The one who guesses wins. They carried with them the implements for gambling. Their game was different from the guessing games which have been heretofore described. A certain number of their sticks had red lines round them and as many of these as one of the players might find convenient were curiously rolled up in dried grass, and according to the judgment of his antagonist respecting their number and marks he lost or won.
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