Native American Culture

Below you will find images relating to the Native American Culture.

Please be aware that these images have been taken from books, photos, postcards, and magazines from the mid-1800's to the early 1900's, and they often reflect the prejudices, stereotypes, and ignorance of that time. Terms that are now considered disrespectful were at one time commonplace and are included here as they appeared in the original source material in an attempt to provide an historical context for these images. They do not represent my own personal viewpoint in anyway.

While the vast majority of images come from my personal collection, when necessary, I have used public domain images from SIRIS, the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System. It is a terrific resource, although not all the materials there are in the public domain. If you want to reuse images labeled as being from SIRIS, be sure to read their copyright information.

These images are free for you to use any way you want with just a couple of exceptions. Please read my Terms of Use for more information.

Native American Culture: Native American ArtNative American Culture: Native American Art

On this page of Native American Art you can see drawings done by Native Americans on paper and on buffalo robes and shields.

Native American Culture: Native American ArtifactsNative American Culture: Native American Artifacts

This page of Native American Artifacts includes a drawing of a stone pipe, Zuni drinking vessels, two baby cradles, a wampum belt and currency, and various relics of the cliff dwellers.

Native American Culture: Native American BasketsNative American Culture: Native American Baskets

Here are some photographs of beautiful Native American Baskets from various tribes.

Native American Culture: Native American BeadworkNative American Culture: Native American Beadwork

I've put together eight color illustrations of examples of Native American Beadwork shown on tobacco pouches, a cradle, a totem, bead cases and knife sheaths.

Native American Culture: Native American ClothingNative American Culture: Indian Clothing

This page features color pictures of North American Indian Clothing with a Kiowa ceremonial headdress, ornamental tobacco pouches, a shell necklace, and a full sized illustration of a Delaware chief in his wonderful regalia.

Native American Culture: Native American ClothesNative American Culture: Native American Clothes

A beaded buckskin clothes bag, moccasins, leggings, pouches, and drawings of a warrior and chief make up this page showing color images of Native American Clothes.

Native American Culture: Native American ClothingNative American Culture: Native American Clothing

This set of full-color drawings of Native American Clothing present two gorgeous headdresses, apache caps, moccasins, shirts, and a red Cheyenne dress ornamented with elk's teeth and beads.

Native American Culture: Native American CraftsNative American Culture: Native American Crafts

On this page of Native American Crafts are six lovely color illustrations of dolls made by Indians of different tribes.

Native American Culture: Native American DesignsNative American Culture: Native American Designs

You can find six color examples of Native American Designs on these accessories: a fancy blanket band, Sioux beaded garters, an Arapahoe war shield, and some beaded bags and pouches.

Native American Culture: Native American DrawingsNative American Drawings

On this page are Native American Drawings done on buffalo robes by Crow, Pawnee, and Mandan tribe members.

Native American Culture: Native American FlutesNative American Culture: Native American Flutes

Here are drawings in color and black and white of Native American Flutes and two paintings and a photograph of Native Americans playing this instrument.

Native American Culture: American Indian ClipartNative American Culture: American Indian Clipart

A Navajo man, a "Noble Red Man," Indians in war paint, on horseback and more can be found on this page of American Indian Clipart.

Native American Culture: Native American ClipartNative American Culture: Native American Clipart

You'll find illustrations of bows and arrows and shields, a Native American girl and Pocahontas, pottery and a blanket, a chiefs, and Indians in a canoe on this page of Native American Clipart.

Native American Culture: Native American Designs SymbolsNative American Culture: Native American Designs Symbols

These Native American Designs Symbols and totems were drawn by George Catlin as he observed them on rocks and trees during his travels with the Northern American Indians.

Native American Culture: Native American GraphicsNative American Culture: Native American Graphics

On this page of Native American Graphics are an assortment of great images of Flatbow and Kootenai Indians, an Indian baby in her cradle, warriors and their wives, a Minataree Indian doing the Dog Dance, a chief in full dress, and Indian dancers impersonating Night and Day.

Native American Culture: Native American PatternsNative American Culture: Native American Patterns

I created these seven full color Native American Patterns digitally; they're based on the beadwork patterns I found in these pages.

Native American Culture: Native American PicturesNative American Culture: Native American Pictures

Nine more Native American Pictures are on this page, with among others, images of Southern Indians, a ceremonial invocation, a sachem,and a drawing titled Lamentation.

Native American Culture: Native American SymbolsNative American Culture: Native American Symbols

Here are eight more Native American Symbols showing various examples of picture writing.

Native American Culture: Native American JewelryNative American Culture: Native American Jewelry

On this page are close-up drawings of Missouria, Kiowa, and Kansas men wearing elaborate Native American Jewelry .

Native American Culture: KachinaNative American Culture: Kachina

This page starts a set of line drawings of all different types of Kachinas, including a turkey cock, buffalo, mocking bird, hawk, owl and wasp kachinas.

Native American Culture: Kachina DollsNative American Culture: Kachina Dolls

These Kachina Dolls represent the red hawk, bee, owl, snipe, hummingbird, and Cooper's hawk.

Native American Culture: Native American Kachina DollsNative American Culture: Native American Kachina Dolls

This final set of Native American Kachina Dolls show us a tcanau, buffalo maid, chicken, owl, eagle, and a duck.

Native American Culture: Native American MedicineNative American Culture: Native American Medicine

This page has terrific images of tribes practicing Native American Medicine with images of ornamented Medicine Men, views of Mandan medicine or mystery lodges, and scenes from their ceremonies.

Native American Culture: Native American MusicNative American Culture: Native American Music

Images of sheet music for Native American Music are on this page, along with a Chippewa Indian song drawn on birch bark.

Native American Culture: Native American PaintingsNative American Culture: Native American Paintings

This group of hand-tinted Native American Paintings are all from a book by Brownell and depict the Indian in his canoe, an interview of Samoset with the Pilgrims, ball playing, Indians making a offering to the dead, an Indian war dance, and an Indian encampment west of the Mississippi.

Native American Culture: Native American PotteryNative American Culture: Native American Pottery

On this page you'll find images of Zuni water vases, paint, and condiment cups, Tesuke water vases, and fragments of more Native American Pottery.

Native American Culture: TeepeesNative American Culture: Teepees

Whether you spell it tipis, tepees, or Teepees you'll find six illustrations of one type of Indian home on this page.

Native American Culture: Native American ToolsNative American Culture: Native American Tools

These Native American Tools are described as being "methods employed by Indians of halfting stone weapons."

Native American Culture: Native American WeaponsNative American Culture: Native American Weapons

Here we have a set of black and white drawings of Native American Weapons including bows, arrows, arrowheads, shields, spears, lances, quivers, and more.

Native American Culture: Indian WeaponsNative American Culture: Indian Weapons

This page has six color illustrations of Indian Weapons such as tomahawks, clubs, knives, sling shots, sheaths, bows, arrows, bow cases, and quivers.



To cite this website:
Hatzigeorgiou, Karen J. U.S. History Images. 2008. Online. Internet. <http://ushistoryimages.com>. 		 




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