Title: Gifts from the ancestors
Subtitle: ancient ivories of Bering Strait
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.
Subjects: Ancient Ivories, Exhibitions, Ivory carving, Antiquities, Eskimo art, Inuit art, Indian art, Ivories, History, Eskimo Ivories
Places: Northeastern Siberia, Siberia, Northeastern (Russia), Russia (Federation), Bering Strait Region (Alaska), Alaska, Bering Strait Region