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Meskwaki
traditional arts
are on display in the
form of bead work, feather and leather work, basketry, bark-fiber weaving
and wood carving.
 Traditional
Meskwaki artist Adeline Wanatee provides this definition of art, "When
two different patterns come together to form a third."
Contrasting patterns are a distinctive feature of Meskwaki art in which
often seeming chaotic arrangements take on a new pattern on close inspection.
This duality is expressed in the function of Meskwaki art as well. The
objects are utilitarian and symbolic at the same time. Their functional
purpose can not be separated from their religious, spiritual and mythological
associations. Meskwaki art objects usually have spiritual associations
even when they have no direct ritual function--few traditional objects
are purely decorative and without meaning.
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