The first images in this collection show tradition things worn and used by members of  several Native American cultures.  The collection concludes with one Prehistoric European carving and an Aboriginal Australian musical instrument and two spear throwers.

These Arapaho moccasins are made of leather. 

The colored beads make trianglular, rectangular, and diamond shapes, which contrast with white beaded areas.

This Lakota dress is also made of leather and decorated with beads. 

Move the cursor above the image to zoom in.

How many different shapes you can find?

The shapes on this man's jacket tell a story of life among the Lakota.

This is a leather case or parfleche made over 100 years ago by someone of the Hunkpapa Lakota people. 

It has large, painted, geometric shapes.

This Navajo blanket was made with dyed sheep's wool.

The traditional Navajo pattern of geometic shapes is called an "eye dazzler."

This Navajo silver piece was made to protect the wrist. 

It has curved shapes.

The oval stone in the center is a piece of tourquoise dug from the ground in Nevada.

This Apache basket was made from plant fibers.

The zigzags that outline the diamond shapes as well as the circles are made up of little rectangles.

Look at the dramatic curved and angular shapes used in the Northwest Coast Native American mask. 

It is made of painted wood with added pieces of metal.

Many thousands of years before there were countries in Europe, a prehistoric carver saw the shape of a woman in this rock and chipped it away to show her body.

This is a traditional musical instrument of the Australian Aboriginal people. 

If you zoom in really closely you can see lines carved into the wood to make diamonds.

These are Australian Aboriginal wooden spears throwers.

Up close you can see shapes made up of lines in them also.