Tobacco Pouch
The Lakota traditionally used dyed porcupine quills to ornament items such as tobacco pouches. Later, artists began to use glass…
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Olok Headdress
Wayana-Apalai communities in Brazil wear Olok headdresses, made with harpy eagle and scarlet macaw feathers, during initiation rituals. The Florida…
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Chilkat Blanket
Chilkat blankets were the ultimate prestige objects on the Pacific Northwest Coast, being expensive and made of rare materials. Both…
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Chief’s Wearing Blanket
The Navajo made this blanket at a time when they were being forced onto reservations and in danger of losing…
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Beaded Vest
In the 1800s, Native Americans began to produce objects to sell to tourists to support themselves while living on reservations….
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Woman’s Patchwork Skirt
In the early 1900s, Seminole women adopted hand-cranked sewing machines and revolutionized their patchwork tradition with more complex patterns. Patchwork…
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Shoulder Bag
This object is on permanent display in the South Florida People & Environments exhibit, located in the “Indian People in…
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Seminole Shoulder Bag
During the 1800s many Southeastern native men wore shoulder bags made of wool cloth with elaborate designs of embroidered beadwork….
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Seminole Dolls
Seminole dolls portray clothing and hairstyles worn by traditional Seminole men and women, with cotton “patchwork” cloth wrapped around palmetto…
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