Contemporary Artists
Part of the Totems to Turquoise exhibition.
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Navajo
The Navajo tribe is the largest in the Southwest: with 300,000 members, it has nearly four times the population of all the Pueblo...
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Hopi
For over 1,500 years, Hopis and their ancestors have lived at the tips of three long, fingerlike mesas that jut out over the arid...
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Zuni
Closer to the other western Pueblos of Acoma and Hopi than to the Rio Grande Pueblos, the Zunis are relatively isolated, and their...
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Santo Domingo
One of the largest, most populous, and most prosperous of the Rio Grande Pueblos, Santo Domingo (or Ke-wha in the Keresan language,...
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Rio Grande Pueblos
More than a dozen Pueblos are clustered along the Rio Grande, which provides plentiful water for their crops—in contrast to the desert...
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Turquoise
Turquoise is found in many parts of the world—indeed, the word "turquoise" comes from the early French word turceis, meaning...
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Haida
Of the roughly 4,000 Haida people living today, most reside on Haida Gwaii, also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, where their...
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Kwakwaka'wakw
A group of roughly 20 tribes that share a common language, the Kwakwaka'wakw are famous for the depth and complexity of their ceremonial...
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Tlingit
Some 10,000 Tlingit live in a dozen villages throughout the islands and nearby mainland of the southeast Alaska panhandle. A few...
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Other Regions
Northwest Coast art can be broadly divided into two regional styles: northern and southern. Northern style includes the Tsimshian,...
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Totem Pole
Carvers of the Northwest Coast developed totem poles centuries ago to display crests—images that represent the origins and history...