Learn about the story of Fog Woman and Raven and the generations of this totem pole from the Tlingit
Seeing America – Theme: American and regional culture
This bandolier bag is the first of its kind from the Sac and Fox tribe in more than 20 years
Marilyn Spoon, Bandolier Bag
Smith uses historic Wyandotte forms to create this contemporary pot, bringing his Indigenous traditions into the present and future
Richard Zane Smith, Wyandotte Feast Pot
An ode to a taken homeland, this painting features a broad landscape of the Wichita Mountains and an everyday scene of the Kiowa people
Stephen Mopope, Game of Skill
A plaster cast of a manhole cover from the streets of Manhattan is a testament to this artist's experimental use of materials
Sari Dienes, Star Circle
Bright red fringe, a pheasant and macaw feather fan, trade blankets—these meticulous details shine in this painting of a member of the Native American Church.
Ruthe Blalock Jones, Medicine Woman
Stripes of industrial spray paint on this canvas recall the industrial city and undersides of highways
Hedda Sterne, Number 3—1957
Lewis leaves behind the figure for abstracted fragments at the end of World War II
Norman Lewis, Untitled
Connections between the southwestern U.S. and Mesoamerica are revealed in these vessels featuring parrots or macaws and a merchant
Paquimé jars
Sam Gilliam trespasses the distinction between painting and sculpture
Sam Gilliam, Purpled (Chasers Series)
Charles Sebree expresses his inner self in The Mystic.
Representing the inner self: Charles Sebree’s The ...
Learn the story behind this totem pole that no longer stands
The story of the Oyster Man, a ...
Dorica Jackson spent 16 years weaving this robe with an abstract whale design and fringe that would animate the movements of a dancer
Dorica Jackson, Diving Whale Chilkat Robe
What is a potlatch? And how is it related to this totem pole?
Haida potlatch pole
The body of this box is made of one piece of wood carefully bent into its four sides
Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast peoples
Learn about two types of totem poles from the Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest Coast that memorialize individuals who have passed
Tlingit mortuary and memorial totem poles
A 19th-century totem pole from Old Kasaan village of the Haida helps us to understand the meaning and function of clan crests.
Reading a Haida clan crest totem pole
De Bry's images of the Americas affirm and assert a sense of European superiority.
Picturing America
A Greek myth and the American anti-Slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin are combined to upend our own contemporary myths.
Turning Uncle Tom’s Cabin upside down
Cole, the great American landscape painter, looks across the vast history of Western architecture
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