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Eskimo Sea Dreams
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactnep.04.01
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NeP.04.01
- Description
- Background is blue green variegated light and dark. On this are various black shapes of men and animals. The top part of the picture has 4 men in a boat, 2 with oars, one casting a spear which is touching the head of a walrus, there are 2 walrus heads. A long curving line runs along the picture,…
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- Title
- Eskimo Sea Dreams
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 49.5 x 60.5 cm
- Description
- Background is blue green variegated light and dark. On this are various black shapes of men and animals. The top part of the picture has 4 men in a boat, 2 with oars, one casting a spear which is touching the head of a walrus, there are 2 walrus heads. A long curving line runs along the picture, below this image is another scene. An animal/man with horns, holding a spear and horns is facing another animal/man, behind them a small bird. They are all standing on a large, black whale. brc artist's carver's chop in red and Dorset chop in black.
- Subject
- activity, hunting
- fishing
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- NeP.04.01
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- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- AuS.04.01
- Description
- Bold, mostly black image. Irregular shape with face, face tatooed. Towards top of image Inuit letters, near chin an ulu.Text in image reads “ᓯᐊᓯ ᐊᑎᑐ”Bottom text reads “17/30 ᑯᓕᓴᔭᒪ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪ ᑭᓇᒍᐊ ᓯᐊᓯ ᐊᑎᑐ ᐳᕕᓇᑐ ᑯᐃᐱ ᑲᓇᑕ 1962”
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- Title
- Face of Woman
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 34.8 x 46.0 cm
- Description
- Bold, mostly black image. Irregular shape with face, face tatooed. Towards top of image Inuit letters, near chin an ulu.Text in image reads “ᓯᐊᓯ ᐊᑎᑐ”Bottom text reads “17/30 ᑯᓕᓴᔭᒪ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪ ᑭᓇᒍᐊ ᓯᐊᓯ ᐊᑎᑐ ᐳᕕᓇᑐ ᑯᐃᐱ ᑲᓇᑕ 1962”
- Subject
- mythological
- figure, woman
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AuS.04.01
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Nine Arctic Birds
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactkia.04.01
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KiA.04.01
- Description
- Two rows of bird silhouettes; top row has 5 birds, all different in various poses, roughly the same size; the bottom row has 4 birds, all different, 2 on left same size as the top row, 2 bottom right are larger; they are all a light gray/blue with darker at tips; the centre top bird has some brown;…
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- Title
- Nine Arctic Birds
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 29.5; 39.2 x 49.0; 63.5 cm
- Description
- Two rows of bird silhouettes; top row has 5 birds, all different in various poses, roughly the same size; the bottom row has 4 birds, all different, 2 on left same size as the top row, 2 bottom right are larger; they are all a light gray/blue with darker at tips; the centre top bird has some brown; artists chop has 2 red boxes with symbols and an igloo; written in pencil in English from left bottom edge: Nine Arctic Birds Skin Stencil 9/50 Cape Dorset Baffin Island 1960 Kiakshuk.
- Subject
- animal, bird, group
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- KiA.04.01
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Tattooed Woman, Ulus and Kudlik
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactpia.04.03
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PiA.04.03
- Description
- Six images, line renderings with shading; top row three faces - first tattooed smiling woman, woman with hair in piles, face with ulu mouth; bottom row - first - fish, middle ulu, kudlik; brc embossed circle 2.8 dia. with letters inside.Bottom reads “23/50 Dorset 1962 Pitseolak”.Back reads “: #271 …
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- Title
- Tattooed Woman, Ulus and Kudlik
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- Six images, line renderings with shading; top row three faces - first tattooed smiling woman, woman with hair in piles, face with ulu mouth; bottom row - first - fish, middle ulu, kudlik; brc embossed circle 2.8 dia. with letters inside.Bottom reads “23/50 Dorset 1962 Pitseolak”.Back reads “: #271 DOR/FD 1962-31”.Canadian Eskimo Arts Council (CEAC)embossed chop in br.
- Subject
- Figure
- female
- Tool
- ulu
- Mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- PiA.04.03
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Two-Faced Sea Spirit
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacteeg.04.02
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- EeG.04.02
- Description
- Bold, almost all black image centered on paper. Facing left the spirit has two faces on an animal-part-fish.Bottom reads “Two-faced Sea Spirit Stone Cut 47/50 Cape Dorset Baffin Island ‘60 Eejyvudluk” Back reads “205 DOR/L 1960 - “7””Red chop denotes Egevadluq Ragee, black igloo chop denotes West …
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- Title
- Two-Faced Sea Spirit
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.2 x 37.5 cm
- Description
- Bold, almost all black image centered on paper. Facing left the spirit has two faces on an animal-part-fish.Bottom reads “Two-faced Sea Spirit Stone Cut 47/50 Cape Dorset Baffin Island ‘60 Eejyvudluk” Back reads “205 DOR/L 1960 - “7””Red chop denotes Egevadluq Ragee, black igloo chop denotes West Baffin Eskimo Coop.Since only two chops are present, this tells us that the artist, Egevadluq, was the artist as well as the printer.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- EeG.04.02
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- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MuN.04.01
- Description
- General colour: green, yellow. A single bird faces left in the cenwer of the composition. A small red and black seal (insignia) is in the upper right corner.
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- Title
- Young Curlew
- Date
- 1960
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.1 x 31.6 cm
- Description
- General colour: green, yellow. A single bird faces left in the cenwer of the composition. A small red and black seal (insignia) is in the upper right corner.
- Subject
- symbolism
- mythological
- bird
- curlew
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- MuN.04.01
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