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The delightful Musee d'Art Inuit Brousseau , at 39 rue St-Louis (daily 9.30am-5.30pm; $6), traces the development of Inuit art from the naive works of the mid-twentieth century to the highly narrative and intricately carved sculptures by contemporary artists. The few ancient items include simple ivory works from the nomadic Dorset and Thule cultures. Stone sculpture really began in the 1940s, replacing the declining fur and hunting industries as a source of income - the Inuit artists used aspects of everyday life such as animals and hunting for inspiration, but would also carve an ashtray if they thought they could sell it to a traveller passing through. One such man, James Houston, became convinced that these sculptures needed a wider audience and organized sales of their work in the south - the nucleus of the Brousseau's collection came from these sales, one sculpture per year. A video shows the surprisingly coarse tools used to make the graceful objects.
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