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04.12.2009 - 02.03.2010. Tundra and Sea |
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The exhibition "Tundra and Sea" opens for visitors peculiar window to the world of arctic hunters and reindeer breeders of Chukotka Peninsula - the severe and beautiful land of our country.
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Exhibition “Tundra and Sea”. (Chukchi’s and Eskimo’s bone-carving craft from the private V.A. Tishkov’s collection).
The exhibition "Tundra and Sea" opens for visitors peculiar window to the world of arctic hunters and reindeer breeders of Chukotka Peninsula - the severe and beautiful land of our country.
Genuine masterpieces of bone-carving craft of Chukchi and Eskimo masters which are presented at the exhibition are the result of many years collecting work of the well-known historian and ethnologist, public figure, director of N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institution of Ethnology and Anthropology, academician Valeriy Alexandrovich Tishkov.
The first objects in the Mr. Tishkov's collection appeared in the 1960s- 1970s, when he worked in Magadan. Those years decorative working methods at walrus tusk reached its high flourishing. At the turn of the 1st to the 2d thousand ancient hunters carved utensils and tools side by side with figures of hunting animals which had sacral meaning. At first only men in their spare time were engaged with bone-carving. In the 1920s-1930s decorative work lost its sacral meaning, and assumed new significance and characteristics. Most of works of art turned in souvenirs such as decorative knifes, ink sets, etc. In the 1940s engraving work was made by women. The articles which were produced during that period reflected the motifs of national folklore. Since the 1950s separate animal figures were replaced by many-figured compositions: travels with reindeer and dog teams, scenes from the life of Tundra and Sea animals, economic activities and way of life of local peoples.
The works of masters from the Tishkov's collection presented at the exhibition reveal all the period of the Chukchi and Eskimo bone-carving craft development. The Chukotka art of bone-carving, is well-known in many countries of the world.
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