Word: eskimoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when London's gallerygoers finally got around to it, they came in droves. Instead of the familiar thorny abstractions, one of London's most advance-guard galleries last week was exhibiting 61 primitive carvings that were as fresh and clean as a stand of clover. The artists: Eskimo tribesmen from Canada's vast Arctic territories, showing their work in Europe for the first time...
...Igloos. The Eskimo sculptures looked strikingly modern. Yet where most moderns can only try to imitate the power of primitive art-the caricature-like simplification, the economic, almost childlike use of detail-the Eskimo sculptors showed a force that set their work apart from the most sophisticated studio products. Without even elementary training in art, working by flickering lamps in their igloos, and using only the simplest tools on bone, ivory and the green, grey or black rocks of their Arctic home, the Eskimos told of what they knew: the dull strength of a musk ox, its heavy head lowered...
...Peabody Museum group made. As a result of the expeditions the last two summers and the one to be taken this summer, the first systematic report of the ancient village site will be prepared. Carter said that the report will take two years to complete. Although the ancient Eskimo village sites at Point Barrow have been known to scholars since 1912, no good report of them has been made thus far. The present project has revealed discoveries which show a definite culture sequence in the area...
...expedition explored a 40 by 60 feet house mound in which they dug to the middle of a room. Upon their return last summer, they continued digging and found that the room was part of a five room house. The Eskimos, research revealed, lived in semi-subterranean houses, with sod block walls erected around frames of drift wood and whale bones. This form of building is unique at barrow, for most other Eskimo dwellings are single room houses of smaller size...
...Carter and his crew will fly to the northland again this July, looking for buried Eskimo house mounds, the "original American," and--John Quincy Adams...