Gifts from the ancestors
Subtitle: ancient ivories of Bering Strait
By: edited by William W. Fitzhugh, Julie Hollowell and Aron L. Crowell ; with contributions by Robert E. Ackerman ... [et al.].
Contributors: Princeton University. Art Museum
Publisher: Princeton University Art Museum; Yale University Press [distributor]
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton; New Haven, Conn; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780300122060
Description: "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.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Princeton University Art Museum from Oct. 3, 2009 to Jan. 10, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancestors and ivories : ancient art of Bering Strait / William W. Fitzhugh and Aron L. Crowell; title: Paul Silook : St. Lawrence islander and anthropologist / Julie Hollowell; title: The sea is our garden : a hunter's view / Herbert O. Anungazuk; title: Walrus, the Beringian "tooth-walker" / G. Carleton Ray; title: The Eskimo harpoon / Sergei A. Arutiunov; title: Ancient origins : an early theory / Hans-Georg Bandi ; translated by Russell Stockman; title: Comparative archaeology of late Paleolithic and Eskimo art / Hansjürgen Müller-Beck ; translated by Russell Stockman; title: Chronology of Bering Strait cultures / Don E. Dumond; title: Ivory carving in the Bering Strait region / Robert E. Ackerman; title: Notes on art styles, cultures, and chronology / William W. Fitzhugh; title: Archaeology at Ekven, Chukotka / Mikhail M. Bronshtein and Kirill A. Dneprovsky ; translated by Anna Samarova; title: Life at Ekven : a paleoethnography / Yvon Csonka; title: Burial of an old Bering Sea hunter / Mikhail M. Bronshtein ; translated by Anna Samarova; title: Art, power, and cosmos in Bering Strait prehistory / Owen K Mason; title: The enigma of ancient Bering Strait art / Sergei A. Arutiunov; title: Early Eskimo art from Ekven and Bering Strait / Mikhail M. Bronshtein ; translated by Richard L. Bland; title: Eagles, beasts, and gods : art of the old Bering Sea hunting complex / William W. Fitzhugh; title: Of human skin and ivory spirits : tattooing and carving in Bering Strait / Lars Krutak; title: Sea mammals in art, ceremony, and belief : knowledge shared by Yupik and Inupiaq elders / Aron L. Crowell; title: Cat tamarmeng ellangqertut [=] all things have awareness / Anne Fienup-Riordan ; with translations by Alice Rearden; title: Artists and contemporary life / Carol Zane Jolles and Galina Dyachkova; title: Uelen carving workshop / Valeri N. Nypevgi ; translated by Natalyia Kondrattsova and Martha Cerny; title: Ancient ivories in a global world / Julie Hollowell; title: Gifts from my ancestors / Susie Silook.