Legacy of Arctic Art

Name: Legacy of Arctic Art
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ISBN: 9780295975078

ISBN-10: 0295975075

ISBN-13: 9780295975078

Edition: 1996

Authors: Dorothy J. Ray, Aldona Jonaitis, Barry McWayne

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Description:

A catalog and memoir combining photographs, analytical descriptions, and the author's anecdotes about the artists represented in her collection of arctic art, now part of the University of Alaska's Museum. The catalog covers the spectrum of Eskimo painting, graphic art, basketry, wood carving, skin and cloth sewing, dolls, engraved ivory from 1866

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


How It Started and Where It Went


Contemporary Graphics


The Professional Artists


Inupiaq Picture Writing


Mainly Women's Work


Coiled Grass Basketry


Skin Sewing: Dolls, Applique, Parkas


The Nome Skin Sewers Cooperative Association


Wood


Manna from Upriver


Some Thoughts about Dolls and Statues


The Messenger Feast of 1912


Animal Figurines


Pictorial Engraving or Eskimo Scrimshaw


Drill Bows and Snow Beaters


Cribbage Boards and Walrus Tusks


Happy Jack and His Ivory Art


Engraved Ivory, 1918-1950


Engraved Ivory, 1950-1970


Engraved Ivory, 1990s


Canadian Inuit Art


Six Stone Carvings


Athabascan Chief's Coat


Can This Be Eskimo Art?


The Seattle Connection


Reproductions and Deceptions


The Billiken


Appendix: Lily Ekak Savok's Picture Writing


Notes


References Used


Acknowledgments


Index