name:"Pootoogook" found 4 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

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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Artist: Napatchie Pootoogook (1938 – 2002, Canadian)

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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Inuit Woman

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Artist: Pootoogook

Date: prior to 1962

Catalogue Number: PoO.06.01

Description: Standing Inuit woman with child on her back, carved from one green stone, a fully clothed Inuit woman. Features carved in detail, hands in mitts turned upward as if carrying something.

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Artist: Pootoogook

Title: Inuit Woman

Date: prior to 1962

Dimensions: 16.0 x 7.5 cm

Description: Standing Inuit woman with child on her back, carved from one green stone, a fully clothed Inuit woman. Features carved in detail, hands in mitts turned upward as if carrying something.

Subject: figure, female; child; woman

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: PoO.06.01

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Man with Goose

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Artist: Napatchie Pootoogook (1938 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NeP.04.02

Description: Line images of a parka clad man in the centre holding a good, on either side of him are 2 fish on the ground; to the left as long tailed, 2 headed bird; upper right in the picture is a skin teepee with 2 fish hanging on the line; off the right of the picture is an embossed circle, 2.8 dia, with let…

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Artist: Napatchie Pootoogook (1938 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Man with Goose

Date: 1962

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 31.5 x 45.5 cm

Description: Line images of a parka clad man in the centre holding a good, on either side of him are 2 fish on the ground; to the left as long tailed, 2 headed bird; upper right in the picture is a skin teepee with 2 fish hanging on the line; off the right of the picture is an embossed circle, 2.8 dia, with letters inside.Bottom reads “23/50 Dorset 1962 Nawpashee”Back reads “#269 DOR/FD 1962-24”Canadian Eskimo Arts Council (CEAC) embossed chop in br

Subject: Figure; man; Animal, goose

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: NeP.04.02

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