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		India - The Living Arts The arts and crafts of India are presented, showing how Indian jewellers, textile artists, potters, carvers and painters create new works using ancient traditions.


		Inuit and Norsemen in Arctic Canada A.D. 1000 to 1400 Norse sagas and historical accounts tell of explorations of the eastern coast of North America and the building of settlements that were occupied briefly. Scientists and laymen have long tried to pinpoint the lands of the sagas.


		Where Sea and Land Meet: Historical Northwest Coast Native settings in the art of Gordon Miller and Bill Holm A detailed knowledge of the traditional cultures of the coastal peoples of British Columbia (Canada) and Washington State (United States), and of the geographic settings in which those cultures flourished, are the source materials to which Gordon Miller and Bill Holm apply their artistic skills.


		Ritual Messengers: African Treasures from the Tervuren Museum, Belgium Features remarkable pieces -- masks, ancestral statues, ritual figurines and many others -- from the world's richest collections of Central African art and culture.

		SEE ALSO:
		Imperial Austria: Treasures of Art, Arms and Armor from the State of Styria
		The Haida : Children of Eagle and Raven