Traditional Inuit attire has been used for protection, a sense of identity, and as culture-bearer for thousands of years. By preserving their clothing traditions, the Inuit celebrate their accomplishments, show pride in being a part of a unique culture, and affirm their lasting connection to the natural and spiritual worlds of their ancestors. Sinews of Survival draws together information about cimcumpolar clothing technologies, styles, and materials from 4000 years ago to the present. In this unique and beautifully ...
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Traditional Inuit attire has been used for protection, a sense of identity, and as culture-bearer for thousands of years. By preserving their clothing traditions, the Inuit celebrate their accomplishments, show pride in being a part of a unique culture, and affirm their lasting connection to the natural and spiritual worlds of their ancestors. Sinews of Survival draws together information about cimcumpolar clothing technologies, styles, and materials from 4000 years ago to the present. In this unique and beautifully illustrated book, Betty Kobayashi Issenman explores the living legacy of Inuit garment use and manufacture. Sinews of Survival summarizes prehistoric finds related to clothing, describes the materials used, their characteristics, and the different items of clothing which are common throughout the circumpolar world. The tools are described at length as well as ingenious ways in which the Inuit prepared the material they harvested from animals, birds, and sea mammals. The text is accompanied by patterns and illustrations of seams and stitches which serve to highlight differences in style from one region tonother and help identify historical clothing of different Inuit groups. The author weaves together Inuit voices, drawings, and writings, giving a glimpse of a rich and layered culture which has survived some of the harshest living conditions in the world while abiding in ecological and spiritual harmony with its environment. While the focus is on the Canadian heritage, ample references to and images of Inuit clothing from Northeastern Siberia, Alaska and Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) help readers appreciate commonalities and differences. Written in accessible language with numerous photographs, Sinews of Survival is an important resource for Arctic scholars, anthropologists, and archaeologists, and for the general public it opens a door to Inuit culture.
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Add this copy of Islamic and Indian Manuscripts and Paintings in the to cart. $21.48, very good condition, Sold by Solr Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Skokie, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by University of Washington Press.
Add this copy of Islamic and Indian Manuscripts and Paintings in the to cart. $99.00, very good condition, Sold by Good Medicine rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from ALBANY, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Pierpont Morgan Library.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Except for a bit of spotting along the top page edge, this copy could pass as new. Pages are bright and crisp. Very gently used. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 513 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of Islamic and Indian Manuscripts and Paintings in the to cart. $110.00, like new condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by The Morgan Library.
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Fine in near fine jacket. Extensively illustrated in color and black & white. 513 pages. Thick 4to, black cloth, dust wrapper. New York: Morgan Library, (1997). Fine in near fine dust wrapper.
Add this copy of Islamic and Indian Manuscripts and Paintings in the to cart. $117.39, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Pierpont Morgan Library.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Some minor wear to dust jacket that shows one small tear to rear edge, otherwise very good. [ Heavy-Please contact for overseas shipping quote ]
Add this copy of Islamic and Indian Manuscripts and Paintings in the to cart. $131.25, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Pierpont Morgan Library.
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VG. Black glossy illustrated wraps; black cloth, gilt lettering. (xxii), 513 pages: illustrations (some color). For the first time since Pierpont Morgan purchased his first richly illuminated manuscript in 1899-an Indian Ragamala-this part of the collection has been catalogued. Included are the late thirteenth-century Manafi-i hayavan of Ibn Bakhtishu, regarded by Richard Ettinghausen as one of the ten greatest Persian manuscripts, and several albums with fifty-seven miniatures that once belonged to Sir Charles Hercules Read. The Islamic and Indian holdings comprise over one thousand miniature paintings from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries and nearly two hundred Quran leaves from the ninth to the eleventh centuries. Many of these manuscripts and paintings-all of which are fully described-are reproduced here for the first time. Consisting of six sections: Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Albums, Provincial Mughal, and Indian, this catalogue contains numerous indices, including an iconographic index of miniatures.
