- Paperback: 86 pages
- Publisher: Museum of Primitive Art & Culture; illustrated edition edition (Feb 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0931163188
- ISBN-13: 978-0931163180
- Product Dimensions: 28 x 21.6 x 0.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 390 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,432,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
For more than a thousand years, Alaska Native people have fashioned human figurines out of stone, bone, ivory, rodent claws, trade cloth, and many other materials. It is widely acknowledged that children played with such figurines but their other uses in both everyday and ceremonial life are less well known.
This book celebrates the many uses of dolls and human figurines from Alaska Native cultures past and present. The examples included represent all six ethnic groups in Alaska -- the Inupiaq and Yu'pik Eskimos, the Aleuts and Alutiiqs, as well as the Athabascana and Northwest Coast Indians.
About the Author
Molly Lee is curator of ethnology and history at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. She is the author, with Gregory A. Reinhardt, of the critically acclaimed Eskimo Architecture: Dwelling and Structure in the Early Historic Period (University of Alaska Press 2003).
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A striking showcase of dolls and dollmaking, July 8 2006
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Not Just a Pretty Face: Dolls and Human Figurines in Alaska Native Cultures (Paperback)
Now in an updated second edition, Not Just A Pretty Face: Dolls And Human Figurines In Alaska Native Cultures is a striking showcase of dolls and dollmaking, exploring their role in the lives of native Alaskans from ancient ivory carvings to the modern tourist market. Filled with color photographs, Not Just A Pretty Face is both an artistic and anthropological showcase. The text surveys the history of dolls and dollmaking, and includes interviews with dollmakers as well as speculations upon the future of native arts. A lay reader-friendly showcase for anthropology shelves, Native American studies shelves, and doll collector shelves alike.
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