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Inuit
and Yupik (Eskimo) Art
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A few
weeks after identifying the characteristic bird-human features
in the artifact material at Day's Knob, this author came upon
the traditional Inuit/Yupik "transformation art" on the Internet, bearing essentially the same
images in a much more refined presentation. Shown along
with examples of this are lithic artifacts from the Day's Knob site with the same
iconography; crude as it is in the stones, it is quite recognizable upon
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__________ Bird or
Other Creature Emerging from Mouth __________
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Bird over Forehead ____________________
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Bird or Other Creature Emerging from Belly __________
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One Eye Open, One Eye Shut ____________
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Bird on Top of Bird ______________
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By Osuitok Ipeelee |
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Modern Inuit
sculpture by Uriash Puqiqnak (left) and Toonoo Sharky
(right). Note the birds on the figures' heads.
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Modern Inuit
sculpture by Tukiki Manome. Note the two faces looking in
opposite directions, a constantly recurring motif in the carvings
and clay figures at Day's Knob.
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For an excellent
display of traditional Yupik art in the bird-human motif, see
the Arctic Studies Center website at http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/yupik/index.html.
Click "View the Masks" and progress through the
series.
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