Traditional Indian Paintings

Chalee: Mutaciua

Detail from
Pop Chalee’s "Mutaciua"
Courtesy of Albuquerque
Public Art Collection at the Albuquerque Int'l Sunport

The best known traditional Indian paintings are those of the Dorothy Dunn school, named after a great early teacher at the Santa Fe Indian School. She encouraged her students to combine their innate design sense with narrative depictions of their cultural life.

Other expressions include the Plains Indians' abstract paintings on parfleches, or saddle bags; the ledger drawings created by early day Indian prisoners; and the tourist items called "Bambi art" that evolved into stylized, linear paintings.

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Related Pages
Ledger Drawings — Then and Now	With a View to the Southwest: Dorothy Dunn
Other Specific Cultures Categories Historic Indian Artifacts \| Contemporary Native American Arts and Crafts \| Ethnographic Art \| Folk Art

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