Arctic Art: Eskimo Ivory

Catalog of an exhibition of Eskimo ivory carvings held at the Museum of the American Indian. The carvings range in age from the first millennium B.C. to the 20th century. The book includes a very large selection of Eskimo carved ivories in color and black & white. A two-page map at the front of the catalog provides a key to the sources of various artifacts and the Inuit or Eskimo peoples that made them. The text provides a history of the Inuit peoples, their society, culture, arts.