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Diversity of cultures and nations

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I have been many thinking about my personal project related to the diversity of peoples. The point is to depict art with one of the animal species (not necessarily mammals. Birds and reptiles can also be) popular / common /important for a particular people. In traditional national clothes and show a little piece of they life.

I already know which nations will be among the first. And I know that there are a huge number of them. The problem is that information on the Internet is often confused, and one national dress can be attributed to another people. Well, I live in Russia, in Siberia - to be quite precise. And here we have a bunch of indigenous peoples, information about which is easier for me to find.

Okay, I can find material that relates to my Siberia, but finding the same materials about other countries is already more difficult. Maybe some of you who live in South, North America, Australia, etc. know archive sites where you can find photos of clothes, tools and other things? I would be happy to see it. Maybe a museum whose materials are in the public domain? I am also interested in ancient civilizations, Egypt, the Aztecs, etc. Sites directly about the culture of the inhabitants of a certain country? I will be glad of the links. This should help me in my search.

*A heavy sigh. Apparently, I will have to become much more modest, because I see giant gaps in history. Many peoples are mentioned, but no more. Apparently, we will have to sort them first, from the simplest to the more complex. I will also have to miss a lot. I'm confused, sort of.
Maybe you can just list me those who are interesting to you so that I can add them to the list and find information? If you want, of course. Ancient and modern. Pygmies too.
In order for the titanic efforts not to go in vain, it makes sense to create several illustrations about the most popular cultures, and the little-known ones will be limited to one.
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Fallowfox

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Okay, guys. I have to change my tactics. Why don't you list the peoples you know (have heard of)? The ancient Celts, Romans and Greeks - of course. Within these groups there are also divisions into narrower groups.
In general, if you want, you can list those who are interesting to you. A forum game, like.
 

Fallowfox

Are we moomin, or are we dancer?
There's open debate about whether the celts were a distinct people with a unified culture, or just a group of languages.

Interesting groups of people include the Ainu and Emishi, who have largely been displaced or replaced within what is now Japan.
They are genetically and culturally quite unique in East Asia.

The Kalash are an interesting south-Asian people who are extremely distinct, genetically.
 
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There's open debate about whether the celts were a distinct people with a unified culture, or just a group of languages.
I'd rather not have a debate. For me, differences in everyday life and traditions are important.
 

Fallowfox

Are we moomin, or are we dancer?
I'd rather not have a debate. For me, differences in everyday life and traditions are important.
(Debate among academics.)

Evidence based on historical records, language, genetics and archaeology still doesn't provide a clear picture of exactly who the celts were,
where they came from, or if they were actually several different peoples.
 
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(Debate among academics.)
I see, well. I am not a scientist, and my life is too short to wait for what conclusion they will come to.

So, I'll just use the information from... public sources. For the general public so to speak. They are described as close in language and culture, so I admit that I will have to combine them all into "Celts". Although maybe I'll get lucky. I don't know, it's a very difficult..
 

Regret

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The nearby Eiteljorg Museum, an American Indian and Western art/history museum, has a small index available online . Unfortunately, it's a tiny fraction of what it actually offers in person.

Here is the link.
The Gallery Labels section will not properly load, but if you click on "Image not available" it will load properly.
 

TheCynicalViet

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Unfortunately, I don't have much in-depth knowledge of Slavic culture/history aside from some small knowledge of Imperial Russia due to it existing in my personal project's setting but I can provide some good resources for East Asian culture if that could somehow be useful to you.

I'll start off with China and add on to this non-comprehensive list before moving on to other cultures:

By the way, please feel free to contact me in private if you want to talk about your project! I'd love to talk about writing and storytelling with someone working on their story.
 
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By the way, please feel free to contact me in private if you want to talk about your project! I'd love to talk about writing and storytelling with someone working on their story.
Thank you for sharing this with me. Some links should help. And thank you for sharing information about Asia.
I can find information about Russia, for me this is the simplest of all (I had a link to a website with information about the indigenous peoples of Siberia somewhere in my browser, I found descriptions of everyday life there, photos of clothes, ornaments and other things). I also found a user who agreed to help me with Mexican culture (Aztecs mainly)

I am not interested in history in a broad sense. In fact, in order to save my time, I am looking mainly for descriptions (or better photos) of clothes, everyday life and traditions (exactly what will help me create art). Of course, I need knowledge about everyday life and traditions in order to create some piece of life (cattle breeding, celebrating a holiday, war and other moments from life).

But I'm not creating a literary work or something scientific, if you've thought about it.
 

Rimna

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The Wikipedia page on traditional Bulgarian clothing does a really good job explaining what they are and what their symbols and colors mean:

As for animals in our folklore... we have a few ones that appear more often than others. The falcon, for example. It's difficult for me to explain exactly why it's in so many songs but it's depicted as a watcher, an animal that can travel great distances, rather than a hunter. Our national animal is the lion.
 
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