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Jul
2022
Native American Art
Carving, as a method for making stone or wood sculpture, is distinct from methods using soft and malleable materials like clay, fruit, and melted glass, which may be formed into the desired varieties whereas gentle and then harden into that type. Carving tends to require rather more work than strategies utilizing malleable materials. Our conventional masks prior to metal tools have been constructed of gourd, tree bark or animal fur; you can see after the introduction of steel instruments more elaborate masks being produced. During some of our dances, the masks were used as methods to keep the id of the dancers from the spectators. In other dances the masks would have been reserved for use by the lead dancer so as to identify the dance...
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