Word: eskimoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young Scot (to unfamiliar music by Hermann Lovenskjold). The piece offered a show-stopping Scottish dance and was full of good-humored stage tricks (a sylph vanishes, later is seen flying up into the rafters). The modern ballet (1942) was Qarrtsiluni, by Knudage Riisager, a tom-tom-thumping, gyrating Eskimo rite...
Canada's Liberal government, one of the free world's most durable political regimes, this week won its fifth straight term. In a national election, held in all ten provinces, in the Eskimo settlements of the Arctic, and at Canadian army camps in Korea and Europe, the Liberal administration led by Prime Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 71, was swept back into office...
Their human figures were even more striking. Though none was more than 7½ inches high, they managed to give a sense of bulk: a muffled hunter bends, awkward and burdened, in his fur parka; an Eskimo mother kneels with her child swaddled on her back...
Into the Trade. The credit for opening people's eyes to Canada's Eskimo artists goes to a Quebec artist named Jim Houston, 32, who first went to the Arctic in 1948. Fascinated by the exquisite little figures he saw, Houston brought back a few examples, persuaded the nonprofit Canadian Handicrafts Guild to put Eskimo carvings on sale. They sold like hotcakes, and each year Houston traveled north for more supplies. Later, the guild put out booklets filled with helpful advice to the Eskimo artists. Sample: "Man throwing harpoon, or spearing through ice ... If they are carefully carved...
Wisely, Artist Houston has not tried to teach the Eskimos the kabloona's styles. Says Houston: "The Eskimo carves the way he feels he should carve, and he doesn't feel inferior simply because his work doesn't conform with accepted standards." So far, Houston has brought back nearly 30,000 tiny works from the Far North; the guild sells them at prices ranging from 50? to $200, and the demand in the trade is greater than the supply. Edinburgh and Paris have both asked for the London exhibit, and there are plans for U.S. exhibits later...