Arts and Crafts: Arctic
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Arts, Social Science
- Subcategories: Artists, Artisans, Native Americans, American Indians, Crafts
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Canada
Article abstract: Art of the Arctic, including prints, basketry, tapestries, and sculpture of stone, bone, and ivory, is exhibited and sold throughout the world; it grew in commercial importance in the years after World War II
Visitors to nearly any Canadian city cannot help but notice the ubiquitous small black and gray stone carvings of polar bears, walruses, seals, and fur-clad hunters. These hastily made souvenirs of the Canadian Arctic may be the best-known objects of Eskimo tourist art, but they are hardly representative of the great variety and fine...
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