Tag Archives: Native Americans

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: Censer Lid

Posted on November 6, 2017 by

Teotihuacan cencer lid (c. 450-650)  

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1967: I Show You This Nickel

Posted on October 22, 2017 by

Money an introductory lecture This morning we shall spend a few minutes Upon the study of symbolism, which is basic To the nature of money. I show you this nickel. Icons and cryptograms are written all over The nickel: one … Continue reading →

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