Elsipogtog workshop passes down rare mask carving teachings to the next generation of artists
A group of eight students from the Mi'kmaw community of Elsipogtog in New Brunswick are learning skills and teachings from a ...
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South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid
R W Johnson is without peer as a historian of modern South Africa. In 1977, he published How Long Will South Africa Survive?, a model of realpolitik at the time of the Cold War, offering no facile ...
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Yup'ik masks: Carvings depicting distorted spirits' faces dreamed up by shamans in Alaska
When it was made: These masks date to at least the 16th century; the one photographed above dates to 1885. Yup'ik masks vary dramatically in size and shape, anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray wrote ...