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The rich artistic traditions of Alaska Natives are the subject of this landmark volume, which examines the work of the premier Alaska artists of the twentieth century. Ranging across the state from the islands of the Bering Sea to the interior forests, Alaska Native Art provides a living context for beadwork and ivory carving, basketry and skin sewing. Examples of work from Tlingit, Aleutian Islanders, Pacific Eskimo, Athabascan, Yupik, and Inupiaq artists make this volume the most comprehensive study of Alaskan art ever published. Alaska Native Art examines the concept of tradition in the modern world. Alaska Native Art is a volume to treasure, a tribute to the incredible vision of Alaska's artists and to the enduring traditions of all of Alaska's Native peoples.
Catalogue of an exhibition entitled "Setting it free", which traces the historical development of Alaskan Eskimo ivory carving from the 1850's to the present.

Savoonga

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Planning Support Group

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 280


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Excerpt from A Monograph on Ivory Carving in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh We may congratulate ourselves, at any rate, that so far our provinces in this direction have escaped the corrupting in uence Of European models, and in this we are more fortunate than the Punjab, where they have begun to turn out combs and paper-knives in Euro pean patterns with Roman letters in quite the approved manner Of Bellagio or Birmingham and it is a melancholy prospect to think that in the fulness of time we may yet find sold on railway platforms paper knives with the inscription A souvenir Of Lucknow.' Mr. Cockburn tells me that Benares, Lucknow, Bareilly, Morad abad and Saharanpur have considerable industries in bone working, more particularly camel-bones, and that they are always ready to work rather in ivory, when they can get or afford it, because it is easier to work and does not require bleaching. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
NEVER IN THEIR WILDEST DREAMS did the young couple imagine their teaching careers would begin in a remote Yupik Eskimo village on a desolate, icy, wind-swept island in the Bering Sea. It was 1951. On a whim, Charles “Tod” and his fiancé, Doris Derby, answer a help-wanted ad seeking teachers in Alaska. Back comes a telegram from the Bureau of Indian Affairs offering jobs 3,000 miles away in Savoonga, population 250, on St. Lawrence Island. The village had no airport, no roads, no telephones, and little contact with the outside world. The Rays arrive in a walrus skinboat. “Our lives have become so vastly different from anything we have ever experienced!” Doris writes her mother. Thus begins one of many candid, evocative letters Tod and Doris write describing their experiences being two of only three white people in the village … melting ice for water … teaching children who speak no English … forming close friendships with villagers who welcome them warmly … fighting a frightening measles epidemic … and receiving groceries by ship once a year while villagers hunt walrus for survival. Finding Savoonga is illustrated with 110 color photographs illustrating a self-sufficient, pre-industrial society subsisting on food from the sea.