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Diversity of Native American Art celebrated USPS are to release a ten stamp sheet featuring photographs of different Native American artefacts dating from around the 11th century to the 1960s. A booklet of twenty stamped postcards will also be issued.  The stamps feature the following designs: Mimbres bowl The Mimbres people of southwestern New Mexico produced some beautiful pottery featuring images of animals, humans and mythical creatures. Most examples found date from 1000-1150 AD. Kutenai parfleche Containers of folded or sewn rawhide, Parfleches were traditionally used by Plains and Plateau tribal groups to store and transport food. The one pictured here dates from around 1900. Two Tlingit sculptures Wooden sculpture was a popular art form among Northwest Coast tribes and the two examples here are believed to date from the 1890s. They appear to illustrate the story of Salmon boy, who lived with the Salmon people in their underwater world. A detail from a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) bag Using ingenious twining techniques, women of the Great Lakes and Central Plains tribes produced wonderful bags featuring illustrations featuring mythical beings. The one shown on the stamp dates from between 1840-1880. Miccosukee-Seminole doll Miccosukee-Seminole women in Florida developed a unique style of patchwork clothing during the early 20th century and used it to manufacture dolls clothes. The male doll featured on the stamp is from circa 1935.stamp Mississippian effigy The sandstone male effigyfrom the issue is an example of the art of the late Mississippian culture (A.D. 1300–1550) in Tennessee. Acoma pot Master potter Lucy Martin Lewis revived the black-on-white style by adapting 800-year-old Puebloan pottery designs to modern Acoma ceramics. The example featured here was produced in 1969. Navajo weaving by Daisy Taugelchee Weaving is the art form for which the Navajo are best known, and Daisy Taugelchee (1911–1990), who set unprecedented standards of fine spinning and weaving, made this stellar tapestry in the late 1940s. A detail of a Seneca ladle The Iroquois were adept at transforming wooden utensils into works of art and the one featured here from the mid 1800s depicts a dog watching a human eating. Luiseño basket California Indians used basketry items for every conceivable utilitarian, social, and ritual purpose and elevated a practical craft into fine art. The one shown on the stamp probably dates from around 1890. | SearchUser login
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