Native American Art
Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the visual artistic traditions of the indigenous peoples of the Americas from ancient times to the present. These include works from South America, Mesoamerica, North America including Greenland, as well as Siberian Yup'ik peoples who have great cultural overlap with Native Alaskan Yup'iks.
Read more about Native American Art: Lithic and Archaic Stage, Mesoamerica and Central America, South American, Cultural Sensitivity and Repatriation
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