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Native American art
Pottery created by the Hohokam people, made of buff clay and painted with red designs.
In Tsimshian carving and painting, artists utilized filler elements, such as eye designs and miniature figures, as part of a deliberate aesthetic effort to leave no open space within or between their conventionalized motifs.1