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Article: INUIT CARVINGS OF ANIMALS, STORIES, SPIRITS OPENS AT NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN IN NEW YORK
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 3, 2006
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The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian issued the following press release:
A traveling exhibition of more than 80 Inuit carvings depicting families, animals, stories and spirits will open Saturday, Nov. 11, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center. "ItuKiagâtta! Inuit Sculpture from the Collection of the TD Bank Financial Group" comprises midcentury works from throughout the Canadian Arctic and will be on display until Sunday, Feb. 4, 2007.
"ItuKiagâtta!," a Labrador Inuktitiut phrase meaning "how it amazes us," presents many works created by Inuit artists from the 1950s and 1960s-a period of great ...