Inuit women rank among the most innovative and skilled craftspeople in the world, and this exhibition shows why. The highlight is a display of three stunning beaded amautiit that have recently been ...
Winter has come and gone, but staff members at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum are still thinking about how to dress warmly. The Museum’s newest exhibit, Threads of Change: Clothing and Identity in ...
This May the National Museum of the American Indian was privileged to host four remarkable Inuit women from Nunavut who were in Washington as guests of the Embassy of Canada to attend the opening of ...
The members of Agguaq say they intend to copy the patterns of items that existed hundreds of years ago made from materials Inuit found on the land. (Submitted by Krista Ulujuk Zawadski) A group called ...
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ASK an average white man to tell you what he knows about the world of the Eskimo and he may give you a somewhat disjointed discourse upon long dark winters, icebergs, igloos, Husky dogs, filthy ...
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A group called Agguaq, made up of artists, designers and seamstresses, is studying ancient Inuit clothing like parkas and amautik patterns — as well as old knife and Ulu designs that are on display in ...