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Native American Beaded Frame: Researched, Conserved, and Restored by Kylei Giles

February, 2023 by Malena Hemenway

The Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee Nation, is a confederacy of six nations: The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. Female artists from all of these nations created elaborate beadwork, but this frame was most likely produced by the Mohawk, who produced beadwork on purple velvet and using these colors, motifs, and the looping, raised beadwork technique shown on … [Read more...] about Native American Beaded Frame: Researched, Conserved, and Restored by Kylei Giles

Filed Under: 2021 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: beading, beadwork, haudenosaunee nation, iroquois culture, native american art, seed beads, tourist trade art, victorian era

Native North American Beadwork by Alexa Langelier

January, 2023 by Alyssa L. Cartier

These colorful earrings are made with light green, dark green, blue, and red seed beads. The almond shape of the transparent green beaded loops suggests that they may represent leaves, or more likely, feathers that are tied along a string.  Feathers were commonly worn as status symbols among Great Plains cultures, as they were presented as symbols of recognition for different … [Read more...] about Native North American Beadwork by Alexa Langelier

Filed Under: 2020 Fall, ART 487: Art of the Americas Tagged With: 20th century, baby carrier pin, beadwork, Earrings, glass beads, Great Plains Cultures, lakota culture, quilled earrings, Rosette, seed beads, tarahumara culture

Regalia of the Great Plains Nations: Researched by Macaylah Gant Hodge

September, 2020 by Sarah Teel

The Native peoples of the Great Plains consist of a variety of cultures who adopted a similar lifestyle that enabled them to survive in this relatively harsh region.  These peoples based their subsistence upon the great bison herds, depending on them for food, clothing, and shelter; following these herds required the Great Plains peoples to adopt a nomadic existence with few … [Read more...] about Regalia of the Great Plains Nations: Researched by Macaylah Gant Hodge

Filed Under: 2016 Fall, ART 385: Art of the Americas Tagged With: 19th century, 20th century, beadwork, cheyenne culture, comanche culture, cowrie shells, crow culture, Great Plains Cultures, headdress, knife sheath, lakota culture, lakota sioux cultures, leatherwork, men's leggings, moccasins, native american art, Sioux Culture, tobacco bag

Great Plains Saddle Bag: Researched and Conserved by Brittaney London

August, 2020 by Sarah Teel

In the first centuries after European contact, groups of Native Americans were forced westward by the Iroquois and by European immigrants into the Great Plains region.  These previously agricultural peoples were enabled to survive in this region through the introduction of the European horse to North America, as this allowed them to travel and reach important resources more … [Read more...] about Great Plains Saddle Bag: Researched and Conserved by Brittaney London

Filed Under: 2017 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: beadwork, cheyenne, great plains, leatherwork, saddle bag

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  • 2014 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
  • 2014 Spring, ART 485: Art of Mesoamerica
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  • 2016 Fall, ART 385: Art of the Americas
  • 2017 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
  • 2017 Spring, ART 485: Art of Mesoamerica
  • 2018 Fall, ART 385: Art of the Americas
  • 2019 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
  • 2019 Spring, ART 485: Art of Mesoamerica
  • 2020 Fall, ART 487: Art of the Americas
  • 2021 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
  • 2021 Spring, ART 485: Art of Mesoamerica
  • 2022 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
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