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TOP PLACES TO SEE
3 INUIT ART
Winnipeg Art Gallery
This art museum holds
the world’s largest
public collection of
contemporary Inuit art.
Much of it will be on
display in the new
interactive Inuit Art
Center (p164).
Intricate Inuit soapstone
carving of a polar bear Art Gallery of Ontario
The J.S. McLean Centre
for Canadian Art has a
INUKSUIT superb collection of
For centuries, Inuit communities have built inuksuit, historic and modern
manmade stone landmarks across Northern Canada pieces (p182).
to help them navigate and mark hunting grounds and

places of veneration. In recent years, these structures Musée des Beaux-
have become cultural icons: one was even adopted as Arts de Montréal
the logo for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Inuit art collection
here contains pieces
MUSIC from past and present,
Traditional music is very important to Inuit culture. Drum and shows how Inuit
dancing plays a key role in most of life’s great events: culture draws on ancient
births, weddings, a successful hunt, and honoring a legends and modern
person who has died. Another form of music, throat changes to traditional
singing, is usually performed by two women facing ways of life (p246).
one another to recount a legend, life event, or myth.

Inukshuk silhouetted
against a sunset in the
Northwest Territories

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