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Twelve hundred miles north of the U.S. border, in a land of frozen inlets and howling winds, above the upper reaches of Hudson Bay, is Cape Dorset. Only a cluster of frame houses, snow huts and translucent plastic igloos on the barren southern coast of Baffin Island, it is the trading station for some 320 Eskimos living in scattered three-and four-family camps along the island's frozen coast. It is also the center of the best folk art this side of Africa. Already famed as the most skilled of the Eskimo sculptors, the Cape Dorset people have...
...Eskimos, the barren snowfields are alive with spirits, and their art prints are full of the mythological as well as the real (chief of the mystic artists is old [72], nearly blind Tudlik, the wise man of the Cape Dorset people). The jet-black raven circling overhead is an evil omen; the sea is the home of the mischievous mermaid-like sea goddess Talluliyuk, who lures the seal away from the hunter. And when the aurora borealis flickers overhead, the Eskimos know that the lights come from the dead playing with seal skulls...
...Middle East. Argued Katz: "From Jerusalem you'd have to go west as far as Rome, east as far as Tokyo, and south forever, to find a decent modern collection. This one will fill a tremendous gap." He added that the museum owns 25 acres of barren ground in the geographic center of expanding Jerusalem. "When Katz told me that," Rose recalls, "quick like a train I said, 'Give me five acres for my sculpture...
...crime when desire for progeny is absent." In Pakistan the standard male reaction to birth control is "a man must have children or he is not a man" throughout the Moslem world, there is the belief that children are "a gift of Allah"; and in many places, a barren woman is an object of pity. In lands where death comes early and often, those who wish extra hands in the fields fear to have few children. In rural Ceylon, people look upon large families as the first step to political influence; so, on an international scale, do ambitious leaders...
...barren place surrounded by the lush abundance of California's San Joaquin Valley live the 300 Negro men, women and children of Teviston. Most of the family heads went to the valley from Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas some 20 years ago as migrant farm workers, pinched their dollars, and with earnest pride bought their own land on a sandy alkali flat and called it home. The neighboring town and country were nourished by huge water projects and irrigation systems. Other valley towns thrived, but Teviston never amounted to much because it had no water supply...