Timeline of Native American art history

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This is a chronological list of significant or pivotal moments in the development of Native American art or the visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Earlier dates, especially before the 18th century, are mostly approximate.

Aztec/Mixtec turquoise mosaic, double-headed serpent pectoral, 15th–16th century CE

Before common era[]

  • 33,950–15,050 BCE: Artists paints hundreds of images at Serra da Capivara, Piauí, in northeastern Brazil.[1]
  • 12,800–8,500 BCE: Artists etch the Winnemucca Lake petroglyphs, near Reno, Nevada.[2]
  • 11,000 BCE: Megafauna bone etched with a profile image of a walking mammoth and cross-hatched designs left near Vero Beach, Florida is the oldest known portable art in the Americas[3]
  • 10,000–7000 BCE: "Horny Little Man," a petroglyph depicting a stick figure with an oversized phallus, is carved in Lapa do Santo, a cave in central-eastern Brazil, is the oldest reliably dated rock art in the Americas.[4]
  • 9250–8950 BCE: Clovis points - thin, fluted projectile points created using bifacial percussion flaking - are created by Clovis culture peoples in the Plains and Southwestern North America[5]
  • 9250–8550 BCE: Monte Alegre culture rock paintings created at Caverna da Pedra Pintada become the oldest known paintings in South America.[6][7]
  • 9000 BCE: A man and child interred in a cave near Serranópolis in central Brazil are accompanied by necklaces of human teeth and mother of pearl[8]
  • 8500 BCE minimum age (could date back to 12,800 BCE): The Winnemucca Lake petroglyphs located near Winnemucca Lake, a dry lakebed in northwestern Nevada, are the earliest known petroglyphs in North America. They feature repeating designs of dots and arches, and other abstract designs.[9]
  • 8000 BCE: Fiberwork left in Guitarrero Cave, Peru is the earliest known example of textiles in South America[10]
  • 8200 BCE: Cooper Bison skull is painted with a red zigzag in present day Oklahoma,[11] becoming the oldest known painted object in North America.[12]
  • 7650 BCE: Cave painting in the Toquepala Caves, Peru
  • 7370±90: Stenciled hands are painted with mineral inks at the Cueva de las Manos, near Perito Moreno, Argentina, as well as images of humans, guanacos, rheas, felines, other animals, geometric shapes, the sun, and hunting scenes[13][14]
  • 7300 BCE: A painted herringbone design from in the Mojave Desert of California is the earliest well-dated pictograph in North America.[15]
  • 5630 BCE: Ceramics left at Caverna da Pedra Pintada, Brazil are the earliest known ceramics in the Americas[16]
  • 3450 BCE: Watson Brake, built by a hunter-gatherer society in Louisiana, is the earliest known mound complex in North America[17]
  • 2885 BCE: Valdivia culture pottery is created in coastal Ecuador[18]
  • 2600–2000 BCE: Monumental architecture, including platform mounds and sunken courtyards, built in Caral, ; Asia; Aspero; Salinas de Chao; El Paraíso; La Galgada; and Kotosh, Peru[19]
  • 2500–1800 BCE: Elaborate twined textiles are created at Huaca Prieta in northern coastal Peru, part of the Norte Chico civilization[20]
  • 2000–1000 BCE: Poverty Point culture in northeastern Louisiana features stone work, flintknapping, earthenware, and effigy, conical, and platform mounds, as well as pre-planned settlements on concentric earthen ridges
  • 1500 BCE–250 CE: Maya art is created in their Preclassic Period, in central and southeastern Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador
  • 1400–400 BCE: Olmec culture thrives in Norte Chico, the tropical lowlands of Mexico. Their art includes colossal basalt heads, jade sculpture, carved writing in stones, and ceramic effigy jars.
  • 1000–900 BCE: The Cascajal Block is carved with writing by the Olmec people, becoming the earliest known example of writing in the Americas[21]
  • 1000–200 BCE: Adena culture, known for its mound building, originates in Ohio and expands to Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of Pennsylvania and New York.
  • 900 BCE: Construction begins on Chavín de Huantar, a Chavín city in Callejón de Conchucos, Peru
  • 900–200 BCE: Chavín synthesis flourishes in central coastal Peru and is characterized by monumental architecture,[22] goldsmithing, stirrup spout ceramics, and Karwa textiles[23]
  • 750–100 BCE: Paracas culture flourishes in south coastal Peru
  • 730 BCE: Porcupine quills used as binding agent in Utah and Nevada[24]
  • 500 BCE: Zapotec civilization emerges in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. They are known for their ceramics, jewelry, and stonework.
  • 200 BCE–500 CE: The Hopewell tradition flourishes in Ohio, Ontario, and surrounding area, featuring ceramics, cut mica, weaving, carved pipes, and jewelry.

Common era[]

  • 1–600: Moche culture flourishes in northern coastal Peru, characterized by monumental adobe mounds, murals, metalwork, and ceramics[25]
  • 1–700: Nasca culture thrives in southern coastal Peru, characterized by double spout and bridge vessels and the Nasca lines, monumental geoglyphs[26]
  • 200–700: Maya civilization's Classic Period. Architecture, painting, stone glyphic writing, books, painting, ceramics, and Maya textiles created in central and southeastern Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador
  • 400–900: Tiwanaku culture emerges from Lake Titicaca and spreads to southern Peru, eastern Bolivia, and northern Chile
  • 500–900: Wari culture dominates central coastal Peru
  • 755±65–890±65: likely dates of the Blythe Geoglyphs being sculpted by ancestral Quechan and Mojave peoples in the Colorado Desert, California[27]
  • 800–1500: Mississippian cultures flourish in the Eastern Woodlands, featuring ceramics, shell engraving, textiles, woodcarving and stonework.
  • 900: Earliest event recorded in the Battiste Good (1821–22, Sicangu Lakota) Winter count[28]
  • 900-1470: Chimú culture thrives in Chimor, today's north coastal Peru.[29] Their art is characterized by monochromatic pottery; fine metal working of copper, gold, silver, bronze, and tumbago (copper and gold alloy);[30] and monumental abode construction in their capital city Chan Chan
  • 1000: Island of Marajó flourishes as an Amazonian ceramic center
  • 1000–1200: Dresden Codex written and illuminated. This Yucatecan Mayan codex from Chichén Itzá is the earliest known surviving book from the Americas[31]
  • 1000–1200: Acoma Pueblo and Old Oraibi are established, become the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States[32][33][34]
  • 1070: Great Serpent Mound built in Ohio.[35]
  • 1100: Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon reaches apex in size at 800 rooms[36]
  • 1100: Hohokam Culture reaches apex in present day Arizona[36]
  • 1142: Wampum invented by Ayenwatha, which the Haudenosaunee used to record information.[37][38]
  • 1200–1533: Inca civilization originated in the Peruvian highlands and spreads across western South America
  • 1250: Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, and other Ancestral Pueblo architectural complexes reach their apex[39]
  • 1325–1521: The Aztec Empire thrives, based in Tenochtitlan, central Mexico. Their arts are characterized by monumental stone architecture, turquoise mosaics, stone carving, ceramics, cotton textiles, and Aztec codices
  • 1430: Construction of Machu Picchu begins, a classic example of Incan architecture
  • 1479: Aztec Sun Stone, a monolithic calendar stone, almost 12 feet in diameter, is carved[40]
  • 1492: Glass beads are introduced to Taíno people
  • 1500: Calusa culture flourishes in Key Marco, Florida,[39] characterized by woodcarving
  • 1500–1800: Navajo people learn loom-weaving techniques from Pueblo people[39]
  • 1600–1615: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Quechua) illustrates his 1,189-page book, El primer nueva corónica [sic] y buen gobierno.
  • 1600–1650: Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl (Texcocan, 1568/1580–1648) illustrates the Codex Ixtlilxochitl with watercolor paintings
  • 1688: European and Mestizo members of the Cuzco School part ways with the Indian painters, allowing them to develop their own styles.[41]
  • 1725: Quebec Grey nuns and Mi'kmaq women devise new floral appliqué techniques in moose hair embroidery[42]

19th century[]

  • 1820s: Haida argillite carving emerges, in the wake of the declining Fur trade
  • 1820s: Tuscarora brothers David and Dennis Cusick, both self-taught artists, begin painting, founding the
  • 1825: Ursuline nuns teach floral embroidery to Métis and Dene women in Fort Chipewyan and Winnipeg,[42] which will revolutionize Great Lakes quillwork, embroidery, and beadwork
  • 1830–1900: Tribes near Niagara Falls create beadwork whimsies, birch bark boxes, and other art forms, jumpstarting an active souvenir trade,[42] following the decline in the fur trade
  • 1840s: (Huron, 1815–1886) begins his career as a realist oil painter
  • 1826/8: David Cusick (ca. 1780–ca. 1831) published his self-illustrated Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations.
  • 1853: Atsidi Sani (ca. 1830–1918) becomes the first known Navajo silversmith
  • 1858–1869: Aron of Kangeq (1822–1869), a Kalaallit sculptor and carver, paints over 300 watercolors about traditional ways of life in Greenland, later to be published in books
  • 1860s: Depletion of buffalo and forced relocation onto reservations causes Plains Indians to shift from hide painting to painting and drawing on cloth and paper, giving birth to Ledger art
  • 1876: Mississauga Ojibwe sculptor Edmonia Lewis is the talk of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia for her monumental marble sculpture, The Death of Cleopatra.[43]
  • 1870–1900: Navajo weavers incorporate new Eyedazzler patterns and Germantown yarns.[44]
  • 1875–1878: Southern Plains artists imprisoned at Fort Marion become prolific Ledger artists
  • 1885–1890: Nampeyo and her husband Lesou (Hopi) revive Sikyátki style pottery[44]
  • 1885–1905: Alaska native arts thrive in the curio trade precipitated by the Klondike Gold Rush[44]
  • 1890s: Silver Horn (Kiowa, 1860/1-1940) creates paintings for anthropologist James Mooney[44]
  • 1895: John Leslie (Puyallup) published a book of his photography at Carlisle Indian School and exhibits his photographs at the Atlanta International Exposition[45][46]
  • 1899: Tsimshian photographer Benjamin Haldane establishes a professional photography studio in Metlakatla, Alaska

20th century[]

21st century[]

See also[]

Notes[]

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  2. ^ Ker Than. "Oldest North American Rock Art May Be 14,800 Years Old." National Geographic. August 15, 2013.
  3. ^ Dell'Amore, Christine. "Oldest American Art Found on Mammoth Bone." National Geographic. 22 June 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
  4. ^ Choi, Charles. "Call this ancient rock carving 'little horny man'." Science on NBC News. 22 Feb 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  5. ^ O'Brien, Michael John and R. Lee Lyman. 'Applying Evolutionary Archaeology: A Systematic Approach. New York: Springer, 2000: 355. ISBN 978-0-306-46253-5.
  6. ^ Wilford, John Noble. Scientist at Work: Anna C. Roosevelt: Sharp and To the Point In Amazonia. New York Times. 23 April 1996
  7. ^ "Dating a Paleoindian Site in the Amazon in Comparison with Clovis Culture." Science. March 1997: Vol. 275, no. 5308, pp. 1948–1952. Retrieved 1 Nov 2009.
  8. ^ Saraceni, Jessica E. and Adriana Franco da Sá. "People of South America." Archaeology. Vol. 49, No. 4, July/August 1996. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  9. ^ "Dating Oldest Known Petroglyphs in North America." Science Daily. 13 Aug 2013. Retrieved 13 Aug 2013.
  10. ^ Stone-Miller 17
  11. ^ Bement, 37
  12. ^ Bement 176
  13. ^ Straus, Lawrence Guy, Valentin Eriksen, Jon M. Erlandson, and David R. Yesner, eds. Humans at the end of the Ice Age: the archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition. New York: Plenum Press, 1996:346. ISBN 0-306-45177-8.
  14. ^ UNESCO gives the dates: 11,000–9,500 BCE. "Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas." UNESCO World Heritage. 2010 (retrieved 15 July 2010)
  15. ^ Penney, 128
  16. ^ Silverman and Isbell, 365
  17. ^ Walker, Amélie A. "Earliest Mound Site." Archaeology. Volume 51 Number 1, January/February 1998 (retrieved 15 Nov 2011)
  18. ^ Josephy, 240
  19. ^ Stone-Miller, 21
  20. ^ Stone-Miller, 18-19
  21. ^ Martínez, Ma. del Carmen Rodríguez et al. Oldest Writing in the New World. Science. Vol. 313, No. 5793, 15 Sept 2006: 1610–1614. (retrieved 26 Oct 2009)
  22. ^ Stone-Miller, 28–29
  23. ^ Stone-Miller, 41
  24. ^ "Quillwork." The Arts: Fine Art, Contemporary Art & Music. (retrieved 4 Nov 2009)
  25. ^ Stone-Miller, 82
  26. ^ Stone-Miller, 64
  27. ^ Malki Museum. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. 1994. Volume 16, Issue 1: 63
  28. ^ Greene and Thornton, 42
  29. ^ "Chapter 12 Ch. 12 Civilizations in the Americas: Chimú". World Civilization. OER Services.
  30. ^ Fester, G. A. (1962). "Copper and Copper Alloys in Ancient Argentina". Chymia. 8: 21–31. doi:10.2307/27757215. JSTOR 27757215.
  31. ^ "The Dresden Codex". World Digital Library. 1200–1250. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  32. ^ "Lucy M. Lewis Dies; Self-Taught Potter, 93". The New York Times. 1992-03-26.
  33. ^ Ancient Citadel. Smithsonian Magazine. April 2008.
  34. ^ Casey, Robert L. Journey to the High Southwest. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2007: 382. ISBN 978-0-7627-4064-2.
  35. ^ Saraceni, Jessica E. Redating the Serpent Mound. Archaeology. Vol. 49, No. 6 Nov/Dec 1996 (retrieved 26 Oct 2009)
  36. ^ Jump up to: a b Berlo and Phillips, 274
  37. ^ Gawyehnehshehgowa: Great Law of Peace. Archived 2009-02-09 at the Wayback Machine Degiya'göh Resources. (retrieved 14 March 2009)
  38. ^ Johansen, Bruce E. Dating the Iroquois Confederacy. Akwesasne Notes. Fall 1995, Volume 1, 3 & 4, pp. 62–63. (retrieved through Ratical.com, 26 Oct 2009)
  39. ^ Jump up to: a b c Berlo and Phillips, 275
  40. ^ "Aztec calendar stone." Aztec History. (retrieved 2 Nov 2009)
  41. ^ Fane, pp. 39–40
  42. ^ Jump up to: a b c Berlo and Phillips, 277
  43. ^ Wolfe, 93
  44. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Berlo and Phillips, 278
  45. ^ Turner, Laura. "John Nicholas Choate and the Production of Photography at the Carlisle Indian School." Visualizing a Mission: Artifacts and Imagery of the Carlisle Indian School, 1879–1918. (retrieved 15 March 2010)
  46. ^ Jump up to: a b Tsinhnahjinnie and Passalacqua, xi
  47. ^ Swan, 70-71
  48. ^ McAnulty, Sarah. Angel DeCora: American Artists and Educator. (retrieved 26 Oct 2009)
  49. ^ Brody, J.J. "A Bridge Across Cultures: Pueblo Painters in Santa Fe, 1910–1932. Santa Fe: Wheelwright Museum, 1992
  50. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Berlo and Phillips, 279
  51. ^ Downs, 90
  52. ^ https://denverartmuseum.org/sites/default/files/pr/DAM%20Announces%20New%20Curatorial%20Appointments_FINAL_0.pdf
  53. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Art Museums Discover Indian Art." 28 Oct 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  54. ^ Dunn, 240
  55. ^ About Ataloa/Mary Stone McClendon. Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Bacone College. 2007 (retrieved 26 Oct 2009)
  56. ^ Jump up to: a b Seymour 346
  57. ^ "The Indian Arts Project (1935–1941)." Rochester Museum and Science Center. (retrieved 6 Feb 2011)
  58. ^ Osage Nation Museum. Archived 2008-10-24 at the Wayback Machine Osage Nation. (retrieved 26 Oct 2009)
  59. ^ Libhart, 30
  60. ^ Seymour, 244
  61. ^ Qualla Arts and Crafts (retrieved 26 October 2009)
  62. ^ Jump up to: a b Economics. Archived 2009-07-16 at the Wayback Machine Woven Voices: Textiles Traditions in the Highland Mayan. (retrieved 26 Oct 2009)
  63. ^ Ingo, 49
  64. ^ Jump up to: a b Berlo and Phillips, 280
  65. ^ "This is your life Oscar Howe, 1960 April 13 | the University of South Dakota Archives and Special Collections Finding Aids".
  66. ^ "How Native American Artist Fritz Scholder Forever Changed the Art World".
  67. ^ "Art Show." Archived 2011-03-15 at the Wayback Machine Red Cloud Indian School: Museum and Heritage Center. (retrieved 6 Dec 2010)
  68. ^ "Trail of Tears Art Show." Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine Cherokee Heritage Center. (retrieved 6 Dec 2010)
  69. ^ Artists:James Lavadour. Archived 2009-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts. (retrieved 1 Nov 2009)
  70. ^ Aboriginal Artists, Contemporary. The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. (retrieved 20 Nov 2009)
  71. ^ "Organizational Background." Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine Nancy Marie Mithlo. 2007-9 (retrieved 1 Dec 2009)
  72. ^ Fiamma, Paula. Santos Chávez: Earth's Printer. Neustro.cl: Chilean Cultural Heritage Site. July 2004 (retrieved 3 Nov 2009)
  73. ^ McFadden and Taubman, 248
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