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The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world—approximately 266,000 catalog records (825,000 items) representing over 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas.
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Where the collection had served George Heye’s mission—“the...
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The museum’s collection includes more than 800,000 objects...
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The archival collections are particularly focused on Native...
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Object Collections. The NMAI object collections (266,000...
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The museum’s collection includes more than 800,000 objects and photographs and more than 500,000 digitized images, films, and other media documenting Native communities, events, and organizations. Find more information on the museum’s object collections and archival collections on this site.
Discover one the oldest Native American art collections in the Western Hemisphere, collecting artistic works from 10,000 years ago up to the present day.
Honoring the diversity of Native life, the display reveals complex perspectives on America’s past and the deep significance of these artworks to Native and non-Native communities in the present. The work of more than fifty Indigenous groups is represented, as well as major Native American aesthetic forms: painting, drawing, sculpture ...
Overall, the inaugural display in the American Wing of Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection —on view through October 6, 2019— fundamentally recognizes the aesthetic and cultural importance of Indigenous American art forms.
26 maj 2023 · SAAM’s collection includes many remarkable artworks that reflect the profound and longstanding contributions of Native and Indigenous artists in the United States. SAAM is committed to collecting, contextualizing, and sharing art by Native makers as critical to American culture and identity.
28 paź 2016 · With artworks ranging in date from the second to the early twentieth century, Native American Masterpieces from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection celebrates the achievements of artists from culturally distinct indigenous traditions across the North American continent.
