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Design
Klaus Georg Hansen and Anne Sudkamp

Front page illustration
Greenlandic artwork.
28 faces are carved in this small block of driftwood about 14 cm high. It was found in a grave in Upernavik, Greenland, and is known as "the Dorset block". The wood has recently been dated to the seventeenth century A.D. The carving may date from that time, or be slightly more recent. The artwork can thus be attributed to the late Thule culture in Greenland, but the Dorset carving style may express the memory of a contact with the Dorset people four hundred years earlier in the Thule area.

Photo: Nunatta Katersugaasivia Allagaateqarfiallu/Greenland National Museum.

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 This page was last modified October 25, 2005 by Klaus Georg Hansen