A sprawling settlement of hundreds of houses on the Tigara spit at Point Hope, famous for surreal carved-ivory burial masks and walrus-ivory eye inlays.
The inland-leaning, non-whaling Ipiutak way faded after about AD 800 as sea-mammal hunting cultures took the Strait; their cemeteries are a high point of Arctic art.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Ipiutak — the shape you scrub through changes in 1 · 501.
A readable synthesis of ancient Arctic peoples that covers the Ipiutak culture of Point Hope and its carved-ivory art.
Places Ipiutak within the prehistory of the Alaskan Arctic coast (broad context).