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OUT OF THE NORTH The Subarctic Collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of AnthropologyBarbara Hail and Kate Duncan1989, 301 pp., 27 color plates, 275 b&w photos, drawings, maps.With 180 illustrated catalog entries and over 75 ethnographic photographs, Out of the North examines Subarctic Algonquin and Athapaskan arts of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as traditional arts today. Essays explore the region and its people, styles and style change, maintaining traditions, and women's art as well as the journeys of Victorian traveler Emma Shaw Colcleugh, whose collection forms the core of the catalog.