Essay On Native American Art

The use of art has been used as a form of expression in the Native American way of life for hundreds, even thousands of years. Most art was created as a symbol, such as a bear, walrus, eagle, or people. The materials to make this artwork varied from rocks, feathers, cloth, clay, and fabric.Native American art has many regions and all of them are different with with how their art is made and presented. One of the regions in the Native American is the Native American arts have become collected and marketed by Americans and Europeans. some groups produced articles symbolizing status positions or items of religious significance. The Cherokee and iroquois which is the material culture part of the woodland groups their art included decorated pottery and baskets also quillwork and beadwork, birchbark utensils,
The nasca produced the nasca lines, the nasca lines was 800 miles of lines drawn in complex networks on the dry surfaces of the nasca plain, it defies human perception from the ground. Nasca arrest also drew geometric forms, such as trapezoidal, spirals, and straight lines. The serpent mound is one of the largest and best known of the woodlands effigy mounds. Serpent mound represents one of the first efforts at preserving a Native American site from destruction at the hands of of hunters and farmers. The Mississippians also constructed effigy mounds which are mounds built in the form of animals or birds . Andean weavers manufactured their textiles by first spinning yarn produced from the cotton grown in five different shades of the warm coast, they then wife the yarn into cloth. Sometimes they sewed rare tropical bird feathers and small plaques of gold and silver into cloth destined. The pad as arts are the funerary textiles used to wrap the bodies of the dead in multiple