Arctic Clothing of North America - Alaska, Canada, Greenland

by King, J. C. H.

• ISBN13: 9780773530089
• ISBN10: 0773530088
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-30
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

"Arising from a conference held at the British Museum in 2001, Arctic Clothing of North America - Alaska, Canada, Greenland is a wide-ranging and authoritative account of clothing use in the north. For the first time, contributors include Native and non-Native artists and seamstresses, anthropologists, historians, curators and conservators with expertise in Alaska, Canada and Greenland."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 12
Our clothing, our culture, our identity	p. 23
Seams of time	p. 28
My recollections - Nengqerralria, Yupiaq Elder Elena Charles	p. 31
How do we heal?	p. 34
Quiet and reserved splendor : Central Yup'ik Eskimo fancy garments of Kuskokwin Bay, Bering Sea	p. 37
Caribou and seal hair : examination by scanning electron microscopy	p. 42
Arctic clothing from Greenland	p. 45
The poor man's raincoat : Alaskan fish-skin garments	p. 48
Tupigat (twined things) : Yup'ik grass clothing, past and present	p. 53
Birds and Eskimos	p. 62
Eskimo sewing techniques in relation to contemporary sewing techniques - seen through a copy of a qilakitsoq costume	p. 70
Iniqsimajuq : Caribou-skin preparation in Igloolik, Nunavut	p. 74
Amautiit	p. 80
Women's skin coasts from West Greenland - with special focus on formal clothing of Caribou skin from the early nineteenth century	p. 84
The Roald Amundsen collection : the impact of a kin preparation method on preservation	p. 91
The remarkable clothing of the medieval norse Greenlanders	p. 95
Dressing up in Greenland : a discussion of change and world fashion in early-colonial West Greenlandic dress	p. 100
Formal clothing : the Greeenlandic national costume	p. 104
Clothing as a visual representation of identities in East Greenland	p. 108
Kayak clothing in contemporary Greenland Kayak clubs	p. 115
Caribou, reindeer and rickrack : some factors influencing cultural change in Northern Alaska, 1880-1940	p. 121
Hairnets and fishnets : the Yup'ik Eskimo Kaapaaq in historical context	p. 127
Clothing in inuit art	p. 132
Skin applique and stencil prints	p. 139
Clothing portraits : identity and meaning in inuit figure studies from the Eastern Arctic	p. 142
Kiana creations : Inulpiaq parkas as wearable art	p. 148
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