Gallery 356 - Art of Native North America

Part of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Gallery Highlights

  • Figurine
    Figurine

    Date: ca. 1879
    Accession Number: 2011.154.168

  • Ledger Drawing
    Ledger Drawing

    Date: 1884
    Accession Number: 1978.412.207P94

  • Ledger Drawing
    Ledger Drawing

    Date: 1884
    Accession Number: 1978.412.207P36

  • Ledger Drawing
    Ledger Drawing

    Date: 1884
    Accession Number: 1978.412.207P174

  • Seed Jar
    Seed Jar

    Date: 14th–16th century
    Accession Number: 2011.154.17

  • Messiter Pipe
    Messiter Pipe

    Date: ca. 1840
    Accession Number: 2011.154.25

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This gallery exhibits works that range in date from several millennia B.C.E., such as the beautifully shaped stone tools known as bannerstones, to 1970s-era tobacco bags.

The objects illustrate a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, artistic styles, and functional purposes, and they come from equally diverse areas on the North American continent—wood sculpture from the North Pacific Coast, ivory carvings from the Arctic, and works of animal hide from the Great Plains, for example. A large Northwest Coast whale mask, which would have been transformed by the manipulations of the wearer into a moving, swimming leviathan, dominates this space.

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