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Article: NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF SPORT TO EXHIBIT INUIT COLLECTION
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 9, 2007
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis issued the following news release:
For the first time since the National Art Museum of Sport moved to University Place Conference Center on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, its complete collection of art of the Inuit people of Northern Canada is on exhibit.
The Inuit collection will be on exhibit until June 15, 2007.
The 53 prints, 22 sculptures and tapestry in the collection capture the action and joy of such games as blanket tosses, drum dances, acrobatics, and wrestling. They were collected by Richard Windhorst, a Minnesota anthropologist whose interest was in preserving a record of the pastimes of a once ...