This wonderful, tiny carving of a buffalo is a Zuni fetish carving, or a wemawe. These carvings are believed to be connected to the spirit of the animal it depicts. While the Zuni did not normally encounter buffalo near their homes, they often traveled north to hunt the buffalo or […]
Monthly Archives: August 2014
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For many coastal tribes, stone was hard to find. This means their craft people didn’t have many materials to make arrowheads or spear points for hunting. While tribes on the mainland may have found it hard to hunt without such tools, the coastal Natives found ways to adapt by using […]
Beads come in many different shapes and colors. The beads, called heishi, featured on this necklace are made out of coconut shell. To make the coconut shell into beads, a hole was drilled using a pump drill like the one below: The individual pieces were then strung together and shaped […]
Music is plays a huge part in every Native culture, though, each tribe has very different ways to express it. The photos above feature a rattle with a very unique shape; this rattle is flat! A common design to the First Nation’s Tribes of Canada, this flat rattle uses material […]