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Tag Archives: Native American art
Z is for Zuni Necklace
Helbing Collection A-Z is a continuing feature of our blog. Each week, I will highlight an item or items from our Helbing Collection of Native American Arts and Crafts. For our final Helbing A-Z post we are sharing our spectacular, … Continue reading
Y is for Yeibichai dancers
Helbing Collection A-Z is a continuing feature of our blog. Each week, I will highlight an item or items from our Helbing Collection of Native American Arts and Crafts. This week’s item is a Navajo Wall hanging featuring Yeibichai dancers. … Continue reading
Posted in Collection Notes
Tagged A-Z, Cleora Helbing, museum collection, Native American art, Navajo, Yeibichai dancers
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X is for items no longer on display
Helbing Collection A-Z is a continuing feature of our blog. Each week, I will highlight an item or items from our Helbing Collection of Native American Arts and Crafts. This post is a little different – there are no photos. … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Z, Cleora Helbing, Eagle Bone Whistle, museum collection, Native American art, Shoshone, Sundance
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W is for Wawxpa
Helbing Collection A-Z is a continuing feature of our blog. Each week, I will highlight an item or items from our Helbing Collection of Native American Arts and Crafts. Flat twined bags called “Wawxpa” or “Sally bags” are made by … Continue reading
V is for Vest
Helbing Collection A-Z is a continuing feature of our blog. Each week, I will highlight an item or items from our Helbing Collection of Native American Arts and Crafts. Of this beaded vest, Cleora wrote, “This tan buckskin vest has … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Z, beadwork, Chippewa, Cleora Helbing, Dakota, leather, museum collection, Native American art, Ojibwe, vest
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U is for Umbilical Cord Holder
Helbing Collection A-Z is a continuing feature of our blog. Each week, I will highlight an item or items from our Helbing Collection of Native American Arts and Crafts. These beaded amulets were often used as umbilical cord holders, traditionally … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Z, Amulet, beadwork, Chippewa, Cleora Helbing, Dakota, museum collection, Native American art, Ojibwe, porqupine quill, quillwork, Sioux, turtle, Umbilical Cord Holder
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T is for Turquoise
Helbing Collection A-Z is a continuing feature of our blog. Each week, I will highlight an item or items from our Helbing Collection of Native American Arts and Crafts. This week I’d like to highlight some of the turquoise jewelry … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Z, Chester Mahooty, Cleora Helbing, museum collection, Native American art, Navajo, silver, Silver jewelry, Turquoise, Turquoise Jewelry, Zuni
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S is for Stephen Mopope
Helbing Collection A-Z is a continuing feature of our blog. Each week, I will highlight an item or items from our Helbing Collection of Native American Arts and Crafts. Stephen Mopope (1898–1974) was a Kiowa painter, dancer, and flute player … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Z, Cleora Helbing, Kiowa art, Kiowa Five, museum collection, Native American art, Stephen Mopope, Steve Mopope
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Q is for Qua-ah
Helbing Collection A-Z is a continuing feature of our blog. Each week for 26 weeks, I will highlight an item or items from our Helbing Collection of Native American Arts and Crafts. Qua-ah? Who or what is that? While not … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Z, Cleora Helbing, museum collection, Native American art, Qua-ah, Southwest Pottery, Tonita Pena
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R is for Ronald Senungetuk
Helbing Collection A-Z is a continuing feature of our blog. Each week for 26 weeks, I will highlight an item or items from our Helbing Collection of Native American Arts and Crafts. Ronald Senungetuk (born 1933) is an Inupiat artist … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Z, Alaska, Cleora Helbing, Inupiat, museum collection, Native American art, Ronald Senungetuk
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