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shenmue

(38,538 posts) Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:40 AM Sep 2020

Inuit archive found in Detroit home

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/detroit-house-valuable-inuit-art-1.5727295?helixEncryptedUrl=U2FsdGVkX1%2B1sMG0ur99ivUbxxXjY%2BO1kcQJqiyOB68wFhGRAgfyx0%2FMtDebMPgdy38zYPaVIFtAhRQIbPtiSfNm8OtW%2BEOu0vWdN1SS5fcZQXfpWhKWbaHH8GeoSGKI

Amazing collection.

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Inuit archive found in Detroit home (Original Post) shenmue Sep 2020 OP

Incredible - thanks. klook Sep 2020 #1

... Laffy Kat Sep 2020 #2

The art is fantastic and the story is amazing lunatica Sep 2020 #3

klook

(12,919 posts)

1. Incredible - thanks.

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Sat Sep 19, 2020, 07:11 AM

Sep 2020

BTW, you don't need the question mark and everything following it in the URL. This works just as well:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/detroit-house-valuable-inuit-art-1.5727295

Laffy Kat

(16,539 posts)

2. ...

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Sat Sep 19, 2020, 07:22 AM

Sep 2020

The pieces featured in the article were in good shape considering where they had been stored. What a find.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

3. The art is fantastic and the story is amazing

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Sun Sep 20, 2020, 02:11 PM

Sep 2020

It’s really incredible art and I’m so glad it has survived. Especially with so much fragile paper. The photo of the pile of papers with chewed edges and water damage is really scary. How much wonderful art is neglected and forgotten, or never to be seen? What if the new house owners had just thrown it all away?

I’ve always felt very strongly that the art we see in museums and art books is just a fraction of the art we know about. Real and meaningful art that is put away in attics and drawers. Art that is truly great art. Forgotten, and maybe destroyed from neglect.

Thanks so much for posting this!

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