Ethnic @en

  The Ute cradles were made out of wood planks covered with skins (in this case a deerskin painted yellow), whereas the wickerwork hood protected the child’s head. The beaded decoration is very striking.

    The Choctaw beaded collar features designs from the Pan-Indian tradition. Produced around 1940 it was worn with men’s shirts as a tie.

  The supreme importance of caribou hunting for the Naskapi, Montagnais and Cree tribes of the Quebec-LabradorPeninsulais reflected in their ¾ caribou skin jackets. They wear these garments decorated with powerful symbols, the hunters hope to obtain that supernatural help that guarantees success on the hunt. Instruments of caribou bones …

  The disk-shaped shell beads, were a type of coin, very valued in California, and this necklace decorated with woodpecker scalps, puffs of quail feathers and abalone pendants, an Indian Pomo was a treasure for the owner.

The mantas woven by pueblo women using wool from their own flocks were worn as garments or shawls from the middle to the end of the last century. This model was made in San Juan: it is embroidered with a two-tone (red and green) geometric motif above and below and …