Highlights from Our Collection. Emmi Whitehorse, , 2020, mixed media on paper on canvas, William A. Clark Fund, 2022.41.1. Richard Ray Whitman, Robert Franklin, Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Do Indian Artists Go to Santa Fe When They Die?, 1988, color offset lithograph on wove Arches paper, Gift of Funds from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation ...
Explore the collection of Native and Indigenous artworks by artists from various tribes and regions of the United States. Learn about the history, culture, and identity of Native makers through videos, exhibitions, and selected works.
Explore the extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts from over 1,200 indigenous cultures in the Western Hemisphere. Learn about the museum's four permanent collections components: Objects, Photos, Media, and Paper Archives.
Native art from the Americas includes Native American sculpture, textiles, basket weaving, Native American paintings, murals, and Native American drawings from North and South America, as well as parts of Siberia, Alaska, and Greenland.
Features over 18,000 objects by artists from over 250 Indigenous nations, encapsulating multiple artistic traditions from ancient times to the present. Collectively, these artworks comprise one of the strongest and most comprehensive collections of Indigenous art in the world.
Explore historical and contemporary works by more than fifty Indigenous groups from across the US and Canada at The Met. Learn about the diversity, significance, and perspectives of Native American art and culture through objects, audio guide, and community resources.
Indigenous American art was often used to venerate or record the achievements of leaders - as in the Maya tradition of courtly sculpture - or to honor the gods. In some Indigenous art, such as the giant stone heads of the Olmec culture, the figure of ruler and divine being seems to merge.
We have focused on acquiring modern and contemporary Native art to complement our superlative early works. Our collection now includes hundreds of late 20th- and 21st-century works of Native art, including new media installations, fashion, photography, textiles, paintings and works on paper.