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What type of art did the Eastern woodlands have?
The Woodlands populations produced a range of functional artworks, most significantly birch-bark canoes, birch-bark architecture, pottery, quillwork, beadwork, animal-skin clothing, woodcarving, stone sculpture, and basketry.
What types of arts and crafts did the Eastern woodlands make?
What types of arts and crafts did the Plains created?
The distinct Plains aesthetic—singular, ephemeral, and materially rich—are revealed through an array of forms and media: painting and drawing; sculptural works in stone, wood, antler, and shell; porcupine-quill and glass-bead embroidery; feather work; painted robes depicting figures and geometric shapes; richly …
What kind of Canoe did the Algonquin Indians use?
Yes–the Algonquin Indian tribe was famous for their birchbark canoes. Here is a website with pictures of Native American canoes. Canoeing is still popular in the Algonquin nation today. Over land, the Algonquins used dogs as pack animals.
What kind of clothing did the Algonquians wear?
Clothing. The Algonquians used the furs from animals they trapped to make their clothing. What they wore depended on the time of year. In the summer the men would wear a deerskin loincloth and the women a deer skin apron. They made moccasins out of animal skins and they used beads, quills, and shells to decorate them.
What did the Algonquin Indians do for a living?
Algonquin artists are known for their beadwork and basketry arts. Like other eastern American Indians, Algonquins also crafted wampum out of white and purple shell beads. Wampum beads were traded as a kind of currency, but they were more culturally important as an art material.
What kind of language is the Algonquin language?
Algonquin is a musical language that has complicated verbs with many parts. If you’d like to learn a few easy Algonquin words, “kwey” (rhymes with “day”) is a friendly greeting and “mìgwech” (pronunciation meeg-waitch) means “thank you.” You can listen to an Algonquin woman talk in her language here and see an Algonquin picture glossary here.