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    • Art
      • Antique Map Art, The Homelands Collection
      • Arctic Peoples
      • Basketry
      • Cape Dorset Prints
      • Cape Dorset Carvings
      • David A. Boxley
      • Drums and Rattles
      • Exceptional and Unique
      • Fetishes, Zuni and Pueblo Stone Carvings
      • Kachina Dolls and Sculptures
      • Masks
      • New Arrivals
      • Navajo Rugs
      • Paintings
      • Pottery
      • Stone Sculpture
    • Jewelry
      • Fine Jewelry
      • Hopi Silver Overlay Jewelry
      • Ivan Howard, Diné (Navajo)
      • Mary Tafoya, Kewa (Santo Domingo Pueblo)
      • Sonwai (Verma Nequatewa,) Hopi
      • Zuni Jewelry
  • Hours and News
  • Contact
  • Artists
    • Artists
      • Anderson Peynetsa
      • Bruce Alfred
      • Carlos Laate
      • Carolyn Bernard Young
      • Carolyn Concho
      • Claudia Peina
      • Cliff Fragua
      • Cody Hunter
      • David Boxley
      • David K. John
      • David Suazo
      • Don Johnston
      • Douglas Yazzie
      • Elsie Holiday
      • Fortune Hungtinghorse
      • Geraldine Tso
      • Gregg Lasiloo
      • Ivan Howard
      • Jackie L. Bread
      • Jane and Lynn Quam
      • Joe Pulliam
      • John Whiterock
      • Klatle-Bhi
      • Kurt Lowrie
      • Lillie Bistui
      • The Littleben Sisters
      • Long Hair
      • Marie Lee
      • Marie Sheppard
      • Mary Tafoya
      • Mark Tetpon, Inuit
      • Melissa Melero Moose
      • Pesavensi (Donna Humetewa Kaye)
      • Peggy Black
      • Peter Lind, Jr.
      • Salvador Romero
      • Raymond Nordwall
      • Roger Perkins
      • Sandra Victorino
      • Sonwai
      • The Chester Sisters
      • Terrance Guardipee
      • Todd Westika
      • Vera Francis
      • Vernon Haskie
      • Wayne Alfred
      • Wilfred Kaye
      • Wilmer Kaye
  • Gallery Archives
    • Arctic Art Sold
    • Basketry Sold
    • Exceptional Art Sold
    • Fetishes Sold
    • Jewelry Sold
    • Kachinas Sold
    • Ledger Art Sold
    • Masks Sold
    • Navajo Rugs Sold
    • Pottery Sold
    • Paintings Sold
  • The People
    • Apache
    • Athapaskans
    • Cape Dorset
    • Canadian Inuit
    • Coastal Salish
    • Cree
    • Diné (Navajo)
    • The Far North
    • Northwest Coast
    • Haida
    • Hopi
    • Inupiaq of Alaska
    • Other Regions; Oklahoma, Plains, Great Basin, Woodlands, California
    • Nuu-Chah-Nulth
    • The Pueblos
    • Yupik
    • Zuni

Blogs from Raven Makes Gallery / Mark Tetpon

  • April 03, 2019

    Arctic Art and Transformations

    Baleen Kayaker, by Don Johnston Aleut Artist at Raven Makes Gallery

    In the very earliest time, when both people and animals lived on earth, a person could become an animal if he wanted to and an animal could become a human being. Sometimes they were people and sometimes animals and there was no difference. All spoke the same language. That was the time when words were like magic. 

    Elder Nalungiaq, Inuit woman (Knud Rasmussen, The Netsalik Eskimos)

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