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Article: Fancy footwear on display (Yukon Arts Centre Gallery opens Footsteps in time: an exhibition of Athapaskan footwear).
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- June 1, 1997
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On May 22, the Yukon Arts Centre Gallery opened Footsteps in Time: An Exhibition of Athapaskan Footwear. The exhibition consists of more than 50 pairs of moccasins borrowed from major institutions throughout North America. Over 25 First Nations groups belonging to the extensive Athapaskan linguistic family which stretches from Alaska, through Northwestern Canada into the Southwest US are represented.
An anthropological theory proposes that a migration from Asia to North America occurred 15,000 years ago across a land bridge called Beringia, joining the continents at the Bering Sea. At that time much of the earth was glaciated, consequently, the world's sea levels ...
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