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Title: Chefs-D'Oeuvre Des Arts Indiens Et Esquimaux Du Canada; Masterpieces of Indian and Eskimo Art from Canada
Description: Paris, Société des Amis du Musée de l'Homme, 1969. Musée de l'Homme, Paris, mars-septembre 1969; Galerie Nationale du Canada Ottawa, the National Gallery of Canada, novembre 1969-janvier 1970. [258]p. colored and b/w plates, original stiff printed wrappers, quarto format. Signed presentation on the t.p.: "Au prof. Norman Holmes Pearson avec mes voeux et amitie, Churchill, January 1970, J. Volant O.M. I." Jacques Volant (1900-1987) was a Missionary Oblate among the Inuit in northern Canada and director of the Eskimo Museum in Churchill, Manitoba (some of the exhibited artifacts were from that collection). .

Keywords: Native Americana Indians Eskimo Canada Art