Native Arts
Created mostly on ready materials: animal hide, wood, paper (later); on rock faces, animal hide walls, and adobe in architecture
Decorative and illustrative / instructive
Both representative and abstract/ ìconceptualî
Depicted ìhistoricalî and daily scenes (commemorated specific events and daily life) and mythological tales
In ceremonial art also created to evoke events
Often intended to invoke idea or essence of a place, person, animal, or event more than to ìdepictî
Seldom ìautobiographicalî in European sense