Qikaaluktut Images of Inuit Life
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1986
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Pegasus Books, Farmington Hills, MI, U.S.A.Pegasus Books
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Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 18.50
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Color Illustrations; 10 1/2 x 8 3/4 ; Unpaginated pages; Oblong shaped book. Hard cover is light orange with gold lettering on spine. DJ has light rubbing/scuffing/bumping; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Pages not numbered. Ca. 100 pages, text on verso/left side, full page colored illustration on recto/right side. Glossary included. ".vivid, highly detailed graphic Images---enlivened by a surreal playfulness----are accompanied by narrative descriptions based on Pelly's conversations with her. Centring [sic] on the search for food, the happy times when it is found, and the beliefs and customs that sustained the Inuit, drawings and text combine to offer an unforgettable way of life that has more-or-less disappeared.' "A Canadian Inuit artist best known for her exuberant drawings, bright-colored wool duffel wall-hangings, and energetic stoneblock prints produced through the Sanavik Co-operative at Baker Lake, Northwest Territories, Ruth Annaqtuusi Tulurialik did not turn to art until she was in her mid-thirties. Tulurialik was born in a traditional Inuit camp along the Kazan River in the Keewatin district of Arctic Canada before the establishment of permanent communities in the Canadian North. Tulurialik draws inspiration for her art from the traditional ways of her Inuit culture, filling her compositions with extremely imaginative depictions of Arctic animals, Inuit in traditional dress, women with facial tatoos, shamans and spirits, fantastic birds and fish, and transformational images. Her drawingsusually in colored pencilare highly-complex in organization and frequently fill the entire page with color".…
Seller Inventory # 7758
- Title
- Qikaaluktut Images of Inuit Life
- Author
- Tulurialik, Ruth Annaqtuusi & David F. Pelly
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Toronto
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- First Printing; Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0195405056
- ISBN 13
- 9780195405057
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
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Sorry for the cost of shipping, but I do not set the postal rates. That is done by US Postal Service. It tends to change [UP] about every 6 months.
International shipping is done using a Freight Forwarder. We send the book to a US domestic address, where it is consolidated by the shipper. When there are sufficient items for the FF to send them onwards, they will do so. This takes ca. 2-6 weeks for international packages to be delivered.
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Any and ALL customs/duties/import fees/etc. are payable by the buyer. They are NOT included in the cost of postage.
It is the responsibility of the buyer, in a foreign country, to know what is permissable to be imported. Any/all rules/laws/regulations which may affect the delivery of ordered item are the responsibility of the buyer NOT the seller [ME].
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