Nuvisavik : The Place Where We Weave by Von Finckenstein, Maria

Mcgill Queens Univ Pr, 2002-02-07. Paperback. Used: Good.

Montreal/Seattle: Canadian Museum of Civilization/ McGill-Queen's University of Washington Press, 2002. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 202 pages, paperback. Current Canadian Eskimo folk weavers. With color illustrations throughout. Price sticker residue to front flyleaf. Mild edgewear and rubbing to wraps. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951653

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Paperback. VG- very light interior foxing, minor corner and edge wear.. Color-illustrated wraps with yellow, tan and white lettering. viii, 202 pp. Color and BW illustrations. In 1970 a small group of young Inuit women in Pangnirtung on Baffin Island began to tell a story - a story about their past, their culture, their lives - a story told through woven pictures. The first book dedicated to the art form of tapestry weaving, Nuvisavik shows how weaving became a bridge between nomadic camp life and life in a permanent settlement. The tapestries, meticulously woven by women trained by their mothers as seamstresses, portray images wistfully remembered by elders in the community and captured by local artists. Both the drawings and the tapestries convey the pride of the Inuit in their culture. The tapestries are presented against a rich cultural and historical context. Two of the essays in the book are based on interviews with elders and reflect the… Read More

Mcgill-Queens University Press, 2002-02-07. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!