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Eskimo Art
Forfatter: Burland, Cottie150,00kr Legg til i handlekurvEskimo Art.
Hamlyn, London 1973, 4to, orig. bind med omslag, 96 s., engelsk tekst, rikt illustrert, delvis i farver.
«Over the centuries Eskimos have carved and engraved the tools of their everyday life with great skill and sensitivity. In the hands of the artist-craftsman ceremonial masks, hunting knives, eye-shades and even cribbage boards have been transformed into objects of beauty and often of magical significance. For the animals and men which appear in Eskimo art are not simple forms but are the images of a supernatural world where gods and demons are ever present. Being so close to nature Eskimos believe in the unity of all living things and have evolved a folklore which expresses their icy experience of life and death.»