Nuvisavik : the place where we weave / edited by Maria von Finckenstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Von Finckenstein, Maria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts & Crafts.

Physical Description:

viii, 202 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization ; Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2002]

Summary:

In 1970 a group of young Inuit women on Baffin Island began to tell stories of their past, their culture, and their lives through woven pictures. The first book dedicated to the Native art form of tapestry weaving, Nuvisavik shows how weaving became a bridge between nomadic camp life and life in a permanent settlement. Members of the Inuit community discuss the cultural content of the tapestries, decoding otherwise enigmatic and puzzling images.

Contents:

" ... but I always think about the old days" / Maria von Finckenstein

Panniqtuuq: plenty of bull caribou / July Papatsie

Views of the past / Cathleen Knotsch

Tapestry: a northern legacy / Deborah Hickman

The tapestries

The tapestry artists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-198) and index.

ISBN:

0295982012

0773523359

OCLC:

48144434