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...Circle, the Kobuk Valley presents another topographical surprise-a stretch of glacier-formed sand dunes, some as high as 30 meters (100 ft.), where summer temperatures can soar to more than 38° Celsius (100°F.). The desert-like dunes are more than 33,000 years old; pre-Eskimo archaeological sites along Onion Portage, which cuts through them, are estimated to be 10,000 years old and are considered among the most important in the Arctic...
...KRUSENSTERN. A remnant of the vanished Bering land bridge, the cape lies on the route along which man traveled to North America from Asia. The area includes 114 sea-sculpted beach ridges, which contain spearpoints and other artifacts that record in chronological order every major cultural period associated with Eskimo prehistory...
...fingers to warm each other) and a heavy overcoat. On the assumption that the 8:30 a.m. train to town will be a late, late show, the well-booted suburbanite may be wise to invest in the commuter's equivalent of a mink coat: Eddie Bauer's Eskimo-designed, nylon and cotton Superior Polar Parka with hood ruff of natural coyote fur ("comfort range -70° to 50° above") for only...
Thrones and Colossi. To move from the grand volumes and rhythmical, steely incision of these Tlingit house posts and Eskimo masks into the world of American neoclassical sculpture is to shift to provincialism. It is also to descend from necessity into sentiment, and, in a sense, from confidence into anxiety. Compared with the pressure of ritual meaning in the best Indian art, the search for a language of classical form and Roman gravitas conducted by the professionals who rose to commemorate the American ideal after the Revolution-Horatio Greenough, Hiram Powers and Thomas Crawford-looks curiously wistful. Hiram Powers...
...Higher Education: "The New School is unique. It has made a special contribution to the intellectual life of the nation." The school intends to keep at it. Next year it will add exotic new courses in 300 Edible Fruits and Vegetables Growing in New York City, American Indian and Eskimo Religion, and Prehistoric Art: Art on the Rocks...