Sheep Tales Gathering | Voices from Solitude, Basque Tree Carvings in the American West
Argyros Performing Arts Center
Ketchum ID, United States
Event description
Dr. John Bieter, professor of History at Boise State University, and Iñaki Arrieta Baro, head of the Jon Bilbao Basque Library at the University of Nevada, Reno, will describe the lertxun-marrak or arborglyphs.
These unique cultural artifacts were etched by Basque sheepherders during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the aspen groves of the Western mountains, a tradition later continued by Mexican and Peruvian herders.
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