The ability to draw...

The ability to draw must have been very important to the American Indian people. I think that when we study over the hundreds of beautiful images in this collection of works it becomes obvious that there must have existed an excellent school system. Do you see work like this in our schools? Are we learning to draw? Now lets be fair, the motivated do learn. The question is, are we producing artist as capable as the artist that created these art works in the numbers that must have existed in the American Indian Nations. One question that I have pondered in viewing literally thousands of art works is, How many artist do you think are represented in this body of works? Likewise, How long a period of time is represented here? Do you think that guilds existed to judge artist work. And finally, Do you think that academies must have thoroughly trained artist over a long apprenticeship. The works in this collection are proof of a highly developed society with excellent opportunity to obtain an education.