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The Eskimos and ‘airport art’

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  • Eskimo by Edmund S. Carpenter, Frederick Varley, and Robert Flaherty (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959). Carpenter’s impressions of the work of the Eskimos and the relationship between their traditional ivory carving and their world view. Illustrated by Flaherty and Varley.

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  • Eskimo Sculpture by Jørgen Meldgaard (London: Methuen & Co., 1960). An attempt by a Danish archeologist and anthropologist to cover the whole field of Eskimo art.

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  • Artists of Tundra and Sea by Dorothy J. Ray (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1961). Concentrates on recent Eskimo ivory carving and the history of the new style.

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  • Eskimo Sculpture by George Swinton (Toronto: MacClelland and Stewart, 1965). Reviews the background of Eskimo art and the history of the new style.

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Nelson H. H. Graburn is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is spending the current academic year in the Eastern Arctic studying Indian and Eskimo art and its relation to the processes of cultural change. He will soon complete a book on the Arctic peoples and cultural change.

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Graburn, N. The Eskimos and ‘airport art’. Trans-action 4, 28–34 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03180074

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