Ornaments
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Arts, Social Science
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Crafts
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Canada, California
Article abstract: In traditional Indian cultures, people decorated their bodies as well as objects such as garments, weapons, and pouches
Ornaments among North American native cultures were as diverse in type as the peoples that produced them. Decorations were added to possessions as well as to the human body, serving various purposes from helping in functional activities to beautifying an individual to visually delineating status, gender, or age.
Indigenous mineral and animal materials were often formed into ornaments. Eagle talons, bird feathers, sea...
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