| Nom de l'objet : | |
| Titre : | Spirit |
| Artiste ou artisan : | Noah, William |
| Autre artiste : | Oosuaq, Barnabus Noah, Martha |
| Rôle de l'autre artiste : | Printmaker |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | |
| Médium : | Stonecut Stencil |
| Support : | Paper |
| Numéro d'accession : | G-86-177 |
| Pays d'origine : | Canada |
| Continent d'origine : | North America |
| Culture : | Inuit |
| Date de fin de production : | 1970 |
| Description : | One of Noah's most famous prints, this work in spite of its title, shows a performing shaman fully masked. The Eskimo viewer, entranced is made to see the inner organs and skeleton of the shaman. With dark, brooding colours, Noah has created a perceptive image of ritual that was central to the shamanic belief system. |
| Commentaires : | Though no shaman can explain to himself how and why, he can, by the power his brain derives from the supernatural, as it were by thought alone, divest his body of its flesh and blood, so that nothing remains but his bones," writes Knud Rasmussen of the shamans of the Iglulik Eskimo. "And he must then name all the parts of his body, mention every single bone by name .... By thus seeing himself altogether freed from the perishable ... flesh and blood, he consecrates himself to his great task, through that part of his body which will longest withstand the action of sun, wind and weather, after he is dead." (Rasmussen, Iglulik, p. 114) |
| Hauteur : | 48.5 |
| Largeur : | 61.3 |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | cm |
| Objets associés : | G-80-135 (Print-Drawing) |
| Sujet ou image : | Shaman Caribou Skeleton X-ray Spirit Mask |
| Département : | Inuit |
| Établissement : |
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| Ville de l'établissement : | Winnipeg |
| Province de l'établissement : | Manitoba |
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