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Image Title Creator Culture Accession # Materials/Techniques
Painted wooden clan mask depicting a bear Virgil Crowe Native American; Cherokee, Eastern (artist and user) 73.736 wood (buckeye), paint
Stickball breechcloth with red, gold, green, and white felt panels Liza Leader Native American; Muscogee (Creek) 95.29 wool, cloth
Osage straight dance breechcloths with green, yellow, red, and purple ribbon in diamond patterns Unknown, Terry Williams Native American; Osage 84.3601c-d wool, satin, hide
Ceramic human effigy figure with bird mask Mesoamerican; Mayan 54.3853 clay
Jade duck effigy pendant Mesoamerican 55.87 jade
Tuxcacuesco-Ortices style, a "Teco" variant, solid human figurine Mesoamerican; West Mexican 54.3743 clay, slip, paint
Ceramic bird effigy figure Mesoamerican; Mayan 54.3856 clay
The Destroyers of Evil Harrison Begay, Harrison Begay Native American; Navajo (Diné) 02.158 tempera on paper
Hide covered model kayak with wooden frame and figures Native American; Alutiiq 93.53 seal gut, wood
Red ochre in a leather bag Native American; Plains 89.28 leather, pigment
Ivory cylinder with a carved animal head and two bears Arctic, Inuit 83.1361 Ivory
Wooden mask with carved feature, animal teeth in the mouth, and a baleen halo around the mask Engles Collection Arctic, Inuit 84.1422 Wood, teeth, quill, baleen
Comala style hollow ceramic funerary standing parrot effigy Mesoamerican; Teuchitlan 54.8183 clay
Grooved and polished obsidian labret or lip plug Mesoamerican 61.8551 obsidian
Jade effigy pendant of a face Mesoamerican 55.141 jade
Stuccoed stone human skull effigy, architectural element Mesoamerican; Aztec 61.8893 stone
Standing human effigy rattle Mesoamerican; Mayan 54.3851 clay
Wooden mask with baleen halo Arctic, Aleut 73.398 Wood, Baleen
Jade effigy pendant of an individual Mesoamerican; Mayan 55.223 jade
Boy's beaded dance moccasins with fringed instep and beaded band above sole Julia Pipestem, Harry Roy Red Eagle, Gregory Perino Native American; Otoe-Missouria (artist), Osage (user) 84.829h-i semi-tanned skin, dye, glass, cotton