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Post by imec on Sept 5, 2009 17:36:12 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2009 19:21:47 GMT
I am absolutely enthralled by it. My family lived in Fairbanks in the early 50s and acquired some pieces. My mother gave them to me, but they're up in her attic right now, alas.
We also had a book of folk tales -- very frightening stuff, with great illustrations.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2009 20:54:56 GMT
I like the round smoothness of it, like melting ice. They probably did their first carvings in ice anyway and probably test their ideas in ice before wasting a whalebone, no?
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Post by imec on Sept 5, 2009 22:15:54 GMT
I like the round smoothness of it, like melting ice. They probably did their first carvings in ice anyway and probably test their ideas in ice before wasting a whalebone, no? Interesting theory, but I've never heard of that. I'll ask - my nephew lives in the Arctic (Kugluktuk)  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2009 22:45:42 GMT
They probably did their first carvings in ice anyway and probably test their ideas in ice before wasting a whalebone, no? Yes. And when they broke out of jail, they carved the guns from ice instead of soap. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2009 22:46:32 GMT
Imec, what does your nephew do up there?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2009 22:46:56 GMT
But they rubbed seal poop on them to make them look darker.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2009 22:49:49 GMT
Necessity is the aama* of invention!
Inuit for "mother"
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Post by lagatta on Sept 6, 2009 0:21:43 GMT
imec, are those lovely pieces yours? One of my uncles has an ancient stone lamp that an Inuit, or proto-Inuit, family used to warm and light themselves hundreds if not over a thousand years ago. And many other pieces, but then his first wife was Inuk and I have cousins who are half Inuk (and in term one of these married an Ojibway). Lots of Aboriginal connections, though I don't know if I have any Aboriginal blood myself (probably a bit, from the Québécois francophone side, but that is normal). My cousins were born up here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuktoyaktuk near Inuvik, west of where imec's nephew works. I have been up to Arctic Québec (Nunavik - just south of Nunavut). |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2009 1:40:13 GMT
I really like them and I usually don't go in for that kind of thing,whatever that means. I particularly enjoy the primitive looking #4. I'll bet they feel wonderful. The walrus is fun,I like walrus.
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Post by imec on Sept 6, 2009 16:18:12 GMT
bixa - he works for the airline, his wife is a school teacher - he has many of these himself
lagatta - yes they're ours - ones that didn't get broken by the kids
casimira - they do feel wonderful to touch, the walrus especially.It's the largest of the bunch and it's really cool to fit your fingers in between the ripples inside the curve of his back.
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