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The only people who have embraced all of Canada’s vast territory are the Inuit and other pre-Columbian peoples, even though they now number less than half a million and have never been many more.
It is -assumed the custom has origins in pre-Columbian cultures, as a coming-of-age ritual for young women.
The huge collection includes pre-Columbian earthenware figures, brilliant Italian Renaissance Majolica, more sedate but elegant Dutch and English Delftware of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the Rococo forms of German Meissen porcelain.
This tradition has been linked to Mexico’s indigenous heritage, for, as Terry Jordan states, “Such use of color in a sacred context has ample pre-Columbian precedent in Mexico, where even the huge pyramids once bore bright paints” (80).
The Carré Rive Gauche, bounded by the quai Voltaire, the boulevard St-Germain, and the rues du Bac and des Sts-Pères, is something of a museum of ancient Egyptian, Chinese, pre-Columbian, African, and Polynesian art, as well as Louis XV, Second Empire, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco.