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Book SynopsisWinner, 2018 Canadian Museums Association Award of Outstanding Achievement in Education
Shortlisted, 2018 Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic Published Book Award
Nunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the world of Canadian and circumpolar Inuit art. The world''s most southerly population of Inuit, the coastal people of Nunatsiavut have always lived both above and below the tree line, and Inuit artists and craftspeople from Nunatsiavut have had access to a diverse range of Arctic and Subarctic flora and fauna, from which they have produced a stunningly diverse range of work.
Artists from the territory have traditionally used stone and woods for carving; fur, hide, and sealskin for wearable art; and saltwater seagrass for basketry, as well as wool, metal, cloth, beads, and paper. In recent decades, they have produced work in a variety of contemporary art m
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"SakKijâjuk marks a major historical moment in which we have the privilege of participating, should we have the ability to see and to recognize it." * Border Crossings *
