Word: athabaskans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Circle in the central Brooks Range, the Gates of the Arctic is the crown jewel of Alaska's proposed parklands, a haunting, austere land of towering peaks and unspoiled wilderness. White, curly-horned Ball sheep, caribou, wolves and other game are found in the park. Nunamiut Eskimos and Athabaskan Indians venture into its vastness to hunt these animals for food...
THAT ELEMENT is the presence of the white man. Nineteenth century pioneers weren't attracted to the Aleutian islands, but the Alaskan gold rush made the land of the Indian tribes into a white-man's thoroughfare. The Tlingit and Athabaskan art comes to have European influences that disturb the fusion of beauty and purpose that makes the art of the Eskimos so moving...
...ceremonial masks of the Indian tribes are less wild than the Eskimos'--they have less fear behind them. The simplified form of an Athabaskan fox-mask, a single piece of wood, doesn't convey a belief in the power behind it. The lush countryside of the Canadian coastal forest might explain this art's concentration on repeating patterns, and these forms are more refined than the colorless, stark Eskimo style. But they are also less striking. The white man's influence shows most clearly in an "Octopus bag" made of felt, cotton, calico and brightly colored polychrome beads--all brought...
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