Gifts from the ancestors : ancient ivories of Bering Strait / edited by William W. Fitzhugh, Julie Hollowell , and Aron L. Crowell ; with contributions by Robert E. Ackerman ... [et al.].
Publisher:
Yale University Press distributor,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
328 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports. ; 27 cm.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Princeton University Art Museum from Oct. 3, 2009 to Jan. 10, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-320) and index.
Contents:
Ancestors and ivories : ancient art of Bering Strait / William W. Fitzhugh and Aron L. Crowell -- Paul Silook : St. Lawrence islander and anthropologist / Julie Hollowell -- The sea is our garden : a hunter's view / Herbert O. Anungazuk -- Walrus, the Beringian "tooth-walker" / G. Carleton Ray -- The Eskimo harpoon / Sergei A. Arutiunov -- Ancient origins : an early theory / Hans-Georg Bandi ; translated by Russell Stockman -- Comparative archaeology of late Paleolithic and Eskimo art / Hansjürgen Müller-Beck ; translated by Russell Stockman -- Chronology of Bering Strait cultures / Don E. Dumond -- Ivory carving in the Bering Strait region / Robert E. Ackerman -- Notes on art styles, cultures, and chronology / William W. Fitzhugh -- Archaeology at Ekven, Chukotka / Mikhail M. Bronshtein and Kirill A. Dneprovsky ; translated by Anna Samarova -- Life at Ekven : a paleoethnography / Yvon Csonka -- Burial of an old Bering Sea hunter / Mikhail M. Bronshtein ; translated by Anna Samarova -- Art, power, and cosmos in Bering Strait prehistory / Owen K Mason -- The enigma of ancient Bering Strait art / Sergei A. Arutiunov -- Early Eskimo art from Ekven and Bering Strait / Mikhail M. Bronshtein ; translated by Richard L. Bland -- Eagles, beasts, and gods : art of the old Bering Sea hunting complex / William W. Fitzhugh -- Of human skin and ivory spirits : tattooing and carving in Bering Strait / Lars Krutak -- Sea mammals in art, ceremony, and belief : knowledge shared by Yupik and Inupiaq elders / Aron L. Crowell -- Cat tamarmeng ellangqertut [=] all things have awareness / Anne Fienup-Riordan ; with translations by Alice Rearden -- Artists and contemporary life / Carol Zane Jolles and Galina Dyachkova -- Uelen carving workshop / Valeri N. Nypevgi ; translated by Natalyia Kondrattsova and Martha Cerny -- Ancient ivories in a global world / Julie Hollowell -- Gifts from my ancestors / Susie Silook.
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