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Vol. II · Polytheism
Nanook
Inuit polar bear master
the spirit master of polar bears granting hunters success in exchange for respectful treatment of the bears they kill and consume on the ice
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.