Navajo
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Navajo refers to both the style and culture of a populous North American Indian group who live primarily in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, speaking an Apachean language which is classified in the Athabaskan language family.
Casas Grandes (Mogollon)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Mogollon culture extended southward into the Mexican states of Chihuahua and northeastern Sonora.
Mimbres (Mogollon)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Mogollon culture, which flourished from about 300 BCE to about 1350 CE, encompassed at least six subgroups, of which the Mimbres people of southwestern New Mexico are probably the best known.
Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) culture developed some two thousand years ago in the Southwestern United States, in northern New Mexico and the Four Corners area where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet.
Hohokam
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Hohokam people thrived in the desert regions of what is now south-central Arizona.
Tsogo
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Tsogo are a small ethnic group originally located in the area of the Upper Ngoume River in Gabon and numbering about thirty-seven thousand.
Tuareg
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Numbering over one million, the Tuareg are seminomadic pastoralists who inhabit the Sahara Desert, southern Algeria, southwestern Libya, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. They are grouped into politically autonomous federations that, on occasion, join together for purposes of trade and defense.
Wongo
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Wongo are a small ethnic group of about ten thousand who live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where they are neighbors of the Pende and Kuba peoples. The subsist on farming and fishing.
Woyo
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
One of five groups that originally made up the Kongo kingdom, the Woyo (residing in the western part of the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cabinda, with a population total of about twelve thousand) are considered a cultural subgroup of the Kongo.
Yanzi
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Yanzi, a trading community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are organized by a caste system. The Yanzi peoples have a tradition of exchanging artistic styles and borrowing forms from neighboring cultures. However influenced by their neighbors the Yanzi may be, their figures are recognizable by their elongated and angular forms.