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Title:
Not just a pretty face : dolls and human figurines in Alaska Native cultures
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Molly C. Lee ; project director and technical editor: Terry P. Dickey ; contributing writers: Molly C. Lee .. [and others].
Publication Information:
Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Museum, c1999.
Physical Description:
x, 75 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
ISBN:
9780931163180
Abstract:
"The exhibition of 'Not just a pretty face, ' which opened at the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks ... in June 1999, celebrates the many uses of dolls and human figurines from Alaska Native cultures past and present.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [71]-75).
Corporate Subject:
University of Alaska Museum -- Exhibitions.
Subject Term:
Dolls -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Figurines -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Small sculpture -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Dollmaking -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Art, American -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Aleut art -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Athapascan art -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Eskimo art -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Haida art -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Tlingit art -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Yupik art -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Yuit Eskimo art -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Eskimo dolls -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Inuit dolls -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Indian dolls -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.
Added Author:
Dickey, Terry P.

Lee, Molly.
Added Corporate Author:
University of Alaska Museum.
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Intimates and effigies: dolls and human figurines in Alaska Native cultures / Angela J. Linn and Molly Lee -- Playing for real: scholarly perspectives on Alaska Native play and ritual / Angela J. Linn -- Everything old is new again: interviewing Alaska Native doll makers / Chase Hensel -- Not just a pretty face: or should we call it something else? / Phyllis Morrow -- References.
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