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Record #193814:
Gifts from the ancestors: ancient ivories of Bering Strait / William W. Fitzhugh, Aron L. Crowell, Julie Hollowell, eds.
Title: | Gifts from the ancestors: ancient ivories of Bering Strait / William W. Fitzhugh, Aron L. Crowell, Julie Hollowell, eds. |
Author(s): | Fitzhugh, William W., Crowell, Aron L., Hollowell, Julie, |
Date: | 2009. |
Publisher: | Princeton NJ: Princeton University Art Museum ; |
Abstract: | Presents 24 essays by international group of scholars from various disciplines representing indigenous groups, museums, archaeologists, art historians, art dealers and private collectors. Examines ancient ivories from Russian coast of Bering Strait (Ekven, Chukotka), islands in Bering Strait (St Lawrence, Wrangel, Little Diomede) and coast of Alaska, with reference to their sophisticated formal aesthetic, cultural complexity, and individual histories. Discusses several objects from recent Russian excavations, and others from private collections. |
Notes: | Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Princeton University Art Museum, 3 Oct. 2009 to 10 Jan. 2010. |
Keywords: | 7.031.71 -- Art, Inuit. 730.235 -- Carvings on ivory and bone. 39 -- Ethnography. 069 -- Museums and art galleries: USA. Princeton University Art Museum. 903 -- Archaeology. U -- Archaeology. (*501) -- Russia (Federation). (*531.251) -- Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug. (*49) -- Alaska. (*494) -- Alaska, northwestern. (*495) -- US islands in North Pacific. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 730.235 |
ISBN: | 9780300122060 |
SPRI record no.: | 193814 |
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