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Indigenous American arts have had a long and complicated relationship with museum representation since the early 1900s. In 1931, The Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts was the first large scale show that held Indigenous art on display. Their portrayal in museums grew more common later in the 1900s as a reaction to the Civil Rights Movement.
Tribal art is the visual arts and material culture of indigenous peoples. Also known as non-Western art or ethnographic art , or, controversially, primitive art , [ 1 ] tribal arts have historically been collected by Western anthropologists, private collectors, and museums, particularly ethnographic and natural history museums .
Indigenous Australian art includes art made by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, including collaborations with others. It includes works in a wide range of media including painting on leaves, bark painting , wood carving , rock carving , watercolour painting , sculpting , ceremonial clothing and sandpainting .
The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (French pronunciation: [myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak]; English: Jacques Chirac Museum of Branly Quay), located in Paris, France, is a museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to feature the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The museum collection ...
The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is an art museum in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.The Eiteljorg houses an extensive collection of visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas as well as Western American paintings and sculptures collected by businessman and philanthropist Harrison Eiteljorg (1903–1997).
Kate Cory, Buffalo Dancer, oil, 1919, Smoki Museum, Prescott, Arizona. The Museum of Indigenous People, formerly known as the Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture, [1] is located in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona and holds collections of Native American artifacts.
The museum has more than 700 exhibits on ethnographic or archeological themes. The museum mainly focuses on the culture of the indigenous people in Uruguay, but there are also exhibits on other parts of Latin America, among them, there is the Mesoamerica region, which includes Mexico and Guatemala, the intermediate region which includes Colombia and Ecuador, this section is about the Cuasmal ...
The Museum houses over 1.35 million objects, with one of the most comprehensive collections and Middle and Near-Eastern art in the world. [4] Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, Russia 1 117,000 objects [5] University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK 800,000 ...