Inuksuit : Silent Messengers of the Arctic

Inuksuit: Silent Messengers of the Arctic

Norman Hallendy
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The mysterious stone figures known as inuksuit can be found throughout the circumpolar world. Built from whatever stones are at hand, each one is unique. Inuksuit are among the oldest and most important objects placed by humans upon the vast Arctic landscape and have become a familiar symbol of the Inuit and their homeland.

In author Norman Hallendy’s forty years of travels throughout the Arctic, he developed deep and lasting friendships with a number of Inuit elders. Through them, he learned that inuksuit are a nuanced, complex and vital form of communication. Hallendy’s dramatic colour photos of many different kinds of inuksuit and objects of veneration capture not only a sense of wonder and power but reveal the unfamiliar Arctic landscape in all its magical beauty.


 


Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 9781550548747
Paperback / softback
10.62 in x 9.5 in - 128 pp
Publication Date: 01/08/2001
BISAC Subject(s):: SOC021000-SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies,ART041000-ART / Native American 
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Description


The mysterious stone figures known as inuksuit can be found throughout the circumpolar world. Built from whatever stones are at hand, each one is unique. Inuksuit are among the oldest and most important objects placed by humans upon the vast Arctic landscape and have become a familiar symbol of the Inuit and their homeland.

In author Norman Hallendy’s forty years of travels throughout the Arctic, he developed deep and lasting friendships with a number of Inuit elders. Through them, he learned that inuksuit are a nuanced, complex and vital form of communication. Hallendy’s dramatic colour photos of many different kinds of inuksuit and objects of veneration capture not only a sense of wonder and power but reveal the unfamiliar Arctic landscape in all its magical beauty.


 

Details


Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 9781550548747
Paperback / softback
10.62 in x 9.5 in - 128 pp
Publication Date: 01/08/2001
BISAC Subject(s):: SOC021000-SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies,ART041000-ART / Native American 
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