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American Indian Music

Across the Americas there are many different Native cultures, each with unique musical traditions. The National Museum of the American Indian and other branches of the Smithsonian include music and sound–related objects from many of these cultures in their collections.

  • American Indian Music
  • Performance Videos

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  • Rattle
  • Drum and drumstick
  • Woman's drum
  • Napi Gives People Life
  • Comanche Dance
  • Güiro
  • Wooden Box Drum
  • De Otabalo
  • Musical Instrument Similar To Violin
  • Shaman's drum
  • Hand drum with seal handle
  • Trumpet
  • Musical Instrument: Drumstick & Drum
  • Women's Dance
  • Violin and bow
  • Desert Thunder
  • Panpipes
  • Gourd Marimba Or Indian Xylophone
  • Aloha Oe (Farewell To Thee); Kuu Home (Native Plantation Song)
  • Buffalo Dance-Six Dancers, Two Drummers
  • Trumpet
  • War Dance of the Sauks and Foxes
  • 3-Stringed Instrument
  • Musical Instrument: Flute
  • Hand-Drum (Se-Bak, Zhung)
  • Violin and bow with sun designs
  • Drum
  • Women's Stomp Dance rattles
  • Bell
  • Child's raven rattle
  • Panpipes
  • Clapper
  • Drum with monkey design
  • Trumpet
  • Guitar
  • Drum and drumstick
  • Spirit of the Music
  • Rattle in the form of a bird
  • Box drum with beaver and halibut designs
  • Drum
  • Drum
  • Drum
  • Drum and drumstick
  • Shaman's drum
  • Drum and drumstick
  • Indian Guitar
  • Esperanza Spalding
  • Guitar
  • Drum and drumstick
  • Guitar

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