Arts & Cultures of Northern American Tribes (Examples Pohl pp.36-37)
Created mostly on ready materials: animal hide, wood, paper (later); on rock faces, animal hide walls, and adobe in architecture
Used a variety of media: pigments, shells, embroidery, leather, etc.
Depicted “historical” and daily scenes and mythological tales
Representative and abstract/ “conceptual”
Often intended to invoke idea or essence of a place, person, animal, or event more than to “depict”
Seldom “autobiographical” in European sense
Because mostly orally-transmitted cultures, were not considered “cultures” by “literate” European settlers