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Native American Indian with Shield, Large.
This figure is made from solid resin which makes it suitable for use indoors or outdoors.
With the coming of Europeans to North America, Native Americans experienced a series of dislocations from which they are still struggling to recover. Foreign invaders overran their territories and claimed sovereignty over their communities, diseases ravaged their populations, and their environments were drastically altered. In many cases, Native Americans were forcibly removed from their aboriginal homelands and livelihoods, with the result that indigenous cultures underwent rapid change. In the midst of these crises, as Native Americans turned to their own religious traditions to understand and ease their plight, missionaries attempted to convert them from their traditional religions to Christianity.
Each figure has been designed in the style of a traditional American Indian and coloured in soft natural realistic tones to complement the traditional feel.
Each figure comes packaged in its own box.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 21cms
Native American Indian with Axe, Large.
One famous trickster in Native American history is the figure of Coyote. In the Navajo story of creation, the Holy Persons methodically placed stars in the sky and plants on the earth. Coyote came along and scattered these elements about, creating the world as it exists today. Coyote also kidnapped the Water Monster's baby and caused a great flood, which brought human beings to the surface world.
Native American Indian with Spear, Large.
Through their oral traditions, Native Americans told how the processes of creation occurred, often through the transforming activities of creative deities, cultural heroes, and tricksters. These stories were not meant to be authoritative assertions about the origin of the world: A single people often recounted several different stories to explain the origin of the same phenomenon
Detailed Dimensions: Height 20cms
Native American Indian with Axe over Shoulder.
In a world filled with both helpful and harmful forces, Native Americans tried to locate repositories of spiritual power. Uncanny phenomena such as geysers, trees struck by lightning, and deposits of rare minerals, as well as dangerous locales such as waterfalls and whirlpools, became sites of pilgrimage where indigenous peoples hoped to collect spiritual power.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 14cms
Native American Indian with Tomahawk.
The term "tomahawk" is a derivation of the Algonquian words "tamahak" or "tamahakan". The earliest definitions of these words (early 1600's) applied to stone-headed implements used as tools and weapons. Subsequent references involved all manner of striking weapons; wood clubs, stone-headed axes, metal trade hatchets, etc. As the years passed a tomahawk was thought of as any Indian-owned hatchet-type instrument. That association changed somewhat as white frontiersmen (traders, trappers, explorers) came to rely on the tomahawk as standard equipment.
Native American Indian with Drum.
Native American drums are fashioned by hand from natural materials and feature excellent sound. On a clear nights the sound of these drums could be heard for miles.
Native American Indian with Axe, Standing.
Most of the hunting and gathering peoples of North America hoped to enter intimate relationships with spirits and to win these spirits as their protectors. They also hoped to avoid spirits thought to be dangerous, harmful, or evil.
Native American Indian with Bow & Arrow.
Because Native Americans believed that supernatural powers were personal beings, they sought to establish relationships with benevolent guardian spirits. Such relationships existed across the North American continent, although they were not prominent in the Southwest.
Native American Indian Standing with Spear.
Native Americans believed that in order to survive as individuals and communities, it was necessary to acknowledge these spiritual powers in every aspect of their lives by addressing the powers in prayer and song, offering them gifts, establishing ritual relationships with them, and passing down knowledge about them to subsequent generations, primarily through myths .
Native American Indian Standing with Axe.
The indigenous peoples of North America perceived themselves as living in a cosmos pervaded by powerful, mysterious spiritual beings and forces that underlay and supported human life.
Native American Indian Standing.
Native Americans lived in a world of spirits who made their presence known primarily through natural phenomena. Most Native Americans believed in a Great Mystery or Great Spirit that underlays the complexity of all existence, as well as in many other spiritual powers that influenced the whole of life.
