Tag Archives: Native Americans

2013: A Brief History of Architecture in Guatemala

Posted on August 14, 2018 by

A still from Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa’s performance piece Breve Historia de la Arquitectura en Guatemala (2013). The performers are Diego Sagastume and Jennifer De León.

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2018: Eagle

Posted on May 6, 2018 by

Jim Charlie (Squamish): Eagle Panel (c. 2018)

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1585: A Young Daughter of the Picts

Posted on December 6, 2017 by

Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: A Young Daughter of the Picts (ca. 1585) An engraving based on this miniature appeared in the section on Picts and ancient Britons in Thomas Hariot’s Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land … Continue reading →

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1671: The Latest and Most Accurate

Posted on November 28, 2017 by

John Ogilby: America- Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World (1671); the book is an English translation of Arnold Montanus’s De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld. The title of this plate is “Viztlipuztli idolum Mexicanorum” —The Mexicans’ … Continue reading →

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1970: Spirit Faces

Posted on November 18, 2017 by

Karoo Ashevak: Spirit Faces (Tooth Pull); the date is a guess.

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1865: Shirt

Posted on November 15, 2017 by

Oglala Lakota (Teton Sioux) artists, South Dakota: Man’s Shirt (1865) (source)

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650 AD: Censer Lid

Posted on November 6, 2017 by

Teotihuacan cencer lid (c. 450-650)  

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