Alan Dockrill: Indigenous Culture Images (Architecture, Art and Artifacts)

Images depicting the architecture, art and artifacts of the major indigenous cultures of Latin America.

Tupi Image 1: Painting entitled 'Tupi woman' from the National Museum of Denmark

Tupi Image 2: A Tupiniquim chief (Cacique) in (Brasília, 2007)

Tupi Image 3: Albert Eckhout: a mixed-race (Mameluco) woman (circa 1641–1644)

Tapuia Image 1: Castelo da Tapuia - Sítio Novo

Tapuia Image 2: Painting entitled 'Dança dos Tapuias', Albert Eckhout

Tapuia Image 3: Painting entitled 'Brazilian Tapui Man', Albert Eckhout

Musica Image 1: Model of ancient Muisca houses in the Archaeology Museum of Sogamoso

Musica Image 2: Ruins of an ancient Muisca temple in the Villa de Leyva near El Infiernito

Musica Image 3: Muisca raft (1200–1500 BC), representation of the initiation of the new Zipa in the lake of Guatavita

Taironas Image 1: Tairona figure pendant in gold

Taironas Image 2: Monument in Santa Marta depicting Taironas

Taironas Image 3: Teyuna, The Lost City of Colombia once inhabited by the Tairona people

Guarani Image 1: Guarani village in Itapua, Paraguay

Guarani Image 2: Guaraní incised ceramics bowls, Museum Farroupilha, in Triunfo

Guarani Image 3: A Guaraní family captured by slave hunters. By Jean Baptiste Debret

Aztec Image 1: Aztec pyramid of Santa Cecilia Acatitlan

Aztec Image 2: The Aztec Sun Stone, also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone

Aztec Image 3: Ancient Aztec cookware and pottery

Maya Image 1: The Pyramid of Kukulkan believed to be built before 800 AD, is easily the most impressive and widely recognized of the structures of Mayan architecture.

Maya Image 2: Maya book written in the Maya script

Maya Image 3: The Tablet found in the Temple of the Foliated Cross

Inca Image 1: Perhaps the most renowned aspect of Incan architecture is the use of terraces to increase the land available for farming. Inca agricultural terraces in Pisac

Inca Image 2: Inca drinking goblet

Inca Image 3: An example of Inca pottery art

Wayuu Image 1: Wayuu handcrafted mochilas woolen bags

Wayuu Image 2: Wayuu improvised hutch to hang hammocks

Wayuu Image 3: A Wayuu rancheria

Warao Image 1: Warao Baskets - They wrap these fibers around a coil of a palm branch. This technique offers us some of the strongest and tightest weaves available. The Warao baskets are some of the finest in the world today.
Warao Image 2: Thatched roof housing on the banks of the Orinoco river in Venezuela

Warao Image 3: A Warao family using a monoxylon on a small Orinoco Delta caño, located near the Monagas border with Delta Amacuro in Venezuela.

Pemon Image 1: A Pemon village depicting typical housing

Pemon Image 2: Young child wearing a traditional Pemon headdress

Pemon Image 3: Pemon arts and crafts on display

Yanomami Image 1: Yanomami Carrying Basket, woven with the fibers of the mamure plant

Yanomami Image 2: Brazil Amazon rainforest Yanomami Indian girl

Yanomami Image 3: A shabono hut, used by the Yanomami Amerindians of extreme southern Venezuela and extreme northern Brazil. Used as temporary dwellings, they are traditionally constructed mainly of thatched palm leaves and wood.

Carib Image 1: Painting which depicts Caribs as the descendants of West Africans, whose members were captured along the West African seaboard and from the interior and who were exchanged for trade goods, enslaved, and transported across the Atlantic to work on the plantations of the islands.

Carib Image 2: Canoe fashioned from wood and thatched roof dwelling

Carib Image 3: Carib natives holding a woven basket

Arawak Image 1: Drawing depicting an Arawak maiden and waterfall

Arawak Image 2: In all Arawak settlements several families shared one house, which was called a caneye. It was round, and made of wattle with a thatched roof.

Arawak Image 3: Arawak stone carving of a bird

Taino Image 1: Taino stone mask carving

Taino Image 2: Taino Carving found in a cave in Puerto Rico

Taino Image 3: Reconstruction of a Taíno village in Cuba

Miskito Image 1: Miskito Cays Biological Reserve is one of 78 protected areas in Nicaragua

Miskito Image 2: Miskito Indians from Nicaragua wait for food at a Honduran camp

Miskito Image 3: Miskito Tunu Bark Art Piece

Mapuche Image 1: Stone weapons used in Mapuche tribal warfare

Mapuche Image 2: The traditional house, ruka, has a single door, open towards the east, an orientation which expresses the preference of the Mapuche for Puelmapu (Land of the East), where the deities reside.

Mapuche Image 3: Mapuche elder women playing a ceremonial drum

Quechua Image 1: Man playing a traditional Quechua flute

Quechua Image 2: Ruined remains of an ancient settlement built by the Quechua people in the Andes mountains of Peru.

Quechua Image 3: Quechua carved gourd depicting the 1880 Battle of Arica, by Flores Kananga, Peru

Aymara Image 1: Aymara woman dancing Morenada. Bolivia

Aymara Image 2: Aymara women hawking their wares in a local market

Aymara Image 3: At the shores of Lake Umayo, a small lake not 20km from Lake Titicaca, still stand the ancient funerary towers of Sillustani. Thought to be built by the Aymara

Guaymi Image 1: Guaymi indian painting on wood

Guaymi Image 2: Guaymi mother and daughter outside their humble dwelling made of tin, thatch and wood

Guaymi Image 3: A display of Guaymi necklaces

Cueva Image 1: Before the Spanish arrived, this was a village inhabited by the Cueva

Cueva Image 2: Cueva wooden indian sculptures

Cueva Image 3: Cueva handmade rug