Gifts from the ancestors : ancient ivories of Bering Strait

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Label

Gifts from the ancestors : ancient ivories of Bering Strait

Title remainder

ancient ivories of Bering Strait

Statement of responsibility

edited by William W. Fitzhugh, Julie Hollowell and Aron L. Crowell ; with contributions by Robert E. Ackerman [and others]

Contributor

• Princeton University, Art Museum
• Ackerman, Robert E
• Crowell, Aron, 1952-
• Fitzhugh, William W., 1943-
• Hollowell, Julia J., 1952-

Subject

• Alaska
• Alaska -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions
• Alaska -- Antiquités -- Expositions
• Antiquities
• Bering Strait Region -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions
• Beringstraße
• Beringstraße -- Region
• Catalogues d'exposition
• Elfenbeinschnitzerei
• Eskimo
• Eskimo
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Geschichte
• Ivoirerie -- Alaska -- Expositions
• Ivoirerie -- Russie | Sibérie (Nord-Est) -- Expositions
• Ivoires antiques -- Alaska -- Expositions
• Ivoires antiques -- Russie | Sibérie (Nord-Est) -- Expositions
• Ivories, Ancient
• Ivories, Ancient -- Alaska -- Exhibitions
• Ivories, Ancient -- Bering Strait Region -- Exhibitions
• Ivories, Ancient -- Russia (Federation) | Siberia, Northeastern -- Exhibitions
• Ivories, Eskimo
• Ivories, Eskimo -- Bering Strait Region -- Exhibitions
• Ivory carving
• Ivory carving -- Alaska -- Exhibitions
• Ivory carving -- Bering Strait Region -- Exhibitions
• Ivory carving -- Russia (Federation) | Siberia, Northeastern -- Exhibitions
• Pacific Ocean -- Bering Strait Region
• Russia (Federation) -- Northeastern Siberia
• Schnitzerei
• Siberia, Northeastern (Russia) -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions
• exhibition catalogs

Genre

• Catalogues d'exposition
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibitions
• Expositions
• exhibition catalogs

Language

eng

Summary

"Gifts from the Ancestors examines ancient ivories from the coast of Bering Strait, western Alaska, and the islands in between - illuminating their sophisticated formal aesthetic, cultural complexity, and individual histories. Many of the pieces discussed are from recent Russian excavations and are presented here for the first time in English; others are from private collections not usually open to the public. The essays, written by an international group of scholars, adopt a refreshing interdisciplinary approach that gives voice to the various competing, and now sometimes cooperating, stakeholders, including Native groups, museums, archaeologists, art historians, art dealers, and private collectors."--Jacket

Cataloging source

UKM

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs