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  2. Art of the American Southwest - Wikipedia

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    New artists’ colonies started growing up around Santa Fe and Taos, the artists' primary subject matter being the native people and landscapes of the Southwest. Images of the Southwest became a popular form of advertising, used most significantly by the Santa Fe Railroad to entice settlers to come west and enjoy the “unsullied landscapes”.

  3. Nampeyo - Wikipedia

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    A world record for Southwest American Indian pottery was declared at Bonhams Auction House in San Francisco on December 6, 2010, when one of Nampeyo's art works, a decorated ceramic pot, sold for $350,000. [7]

  4. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    While the oldest wooden artifacts are as much as 10,000 years old, carved and painted wooden objects are known only from the past 2,000 years. Animal effigies and face masks have been found at a number of sites in Florida. Animal effigies dating to between 200 and 600 were found in a mortuary pond at Fort Center, on the west side of Lake ...

  5. List of Native American artists - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of visual artists who are Native Americans in the United States. The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 defines "Native American" as being enrolled in either federally recognized tribes or state recognized tribes or "an individual certified as an Indian artisan by an Indian Tribe."

  6. Zuni fetishes - Wikipedia

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    Each direction is represented by a Prey God, or guardian animal, and are listed by Cushing as follows: north: yellow mountain lion; west: black bear (represented by the color blue), south: red badger, east: white wolf, above or the sky: multicolored eagle, below or underground: black shrew (often misnamed "mole," but moles do not live in the ...

  7. Western American Art - Wikipedia

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    Paintings focusing on nature and animal are another way in which artists demonstrate the wild West. Carl Rungius , who was a nature and animal plein-air painter, is a typical example for this, therefore, he continued recording the western wild life over decades for this career. [ 20 ]

  8. Category:Fauna of the Southwestern United States - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Fauna of the Southwestern United States" The following 181 pages are in this category, out of 181 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. .

  9. Kokopelli - Wikipedia

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    Kokopelli and Kokopelli Mana as depicted by the Hopi. Kokopelli (/ ˌ k oʊ k oʊ ˈ p ɛ l iː / [1]) is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with feathers or antenna-like protrusions on his head), who is venerated by some Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States.