Varna Marianne Nielsen’s favourite drum is made from a polar bear’s stomach stretched taut over a frame of seal rib bones. Today in Paris, however, she’s brought a different drum with her from Greenland as polar-bear stomach doesn’t travel well — it’s liable to warp in the comparative humidity of France. The object she now turns over in her hands is her travel drum, made of caribou skin with a driftwood frame.
In her traditional Inuit dress, she looks dramatically out of place in…
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