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Artist
Isah Aviliaju
Date
1962
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
AvI.04.01
Description
A hunting scene. A hunter to the right of the picture is throwing a spear into the side of a walrus. A float is attached to the spear line. The images are in positive detail. The shape of the stone is indicated at the sides. A rectangular shape under the foot of the hunter has inscribed: Isah …
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Artist
Isah Aviliaju
Title
Harpooning a Walrus
Date
1962
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
43.5 x 61.0 cm
Description
A hunting scene. A hunter to the right of the picture is throwing a spear into the side of a walrus. A float is attached to the spear line. The images are in positive detail. The shape of the stone is indicated at the sides. A rectangular shape under the foot of the hunter has inscribed: Isah (Inuit symbols)Bottom text reads “20/30 ᑯᓕᓴᔭᒧ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪ ᐊᒍᑎ ᐊᐃᕕᒥ ᓇᐅᓕᓯᒪᔪ ᐊᐃᓴ ᐊᕕᓕᐊᔪ ᐳᕕᓂᑐ ᑯᐃᐱ ᑲᓇᑕ 1962”Text in image reads “ISAH ᐊᕕᓕᐊᔪ”
Subject
activity
hunting
Inuit
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
AvI.04.01
Images
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Kayak out of Dog's Reach

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Artist
Syollie Amituk (1936 – 1986, Canadian)
Date
1962
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
ArS.04.01
Description
Black positive image, kayak is turned upside down on three paddles, front and back. A dog is standing underneath. Three black shapes around kayak - left, top and right. In lower black shape are 4 Inuit letters. On back tlc ink stamped: Povungnituk Cooperative Society Pr. Quebec Canada 1962Syll…
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Artist
Syollie Amituk (1936 – 1986, Canadian)
Title
Kayak out of Dog's Reach
Date
1962
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
40.2 x 49.5 cm
Description
Black positive image, kayak is turned upside down on three paddles, front and back. A dog is standing underneath. Three black shapes around kayak - left, top and right. In lower black shape are 4 Inuit letters. On back tlc ink stamped: Povungnituk Cooperative Society Pr. Quebec Canada 1962Syllabics in image read “ᓴᔪᐃᓕ”. Bottom text reads “28/30 ᑯᓕᓴᔭᒧ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪ ᑲᔭ ᓂᕆᔭᐅᓂᐊᒋᒪ ᑭᒥᓄ ??ᓂᔭᐅᕙᑐ. ᓴᔪᐃᓕ ᐳᕕᓂᑐ ᑯᐃᐱ ᑲᓇᑕ 1962”
Subject
activity, hunting
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
ArS.04.01
Images
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Artist
Anna Kingwatsiak (1911 – 1971, Canadian)
Date
1970
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
AnA.04.01
Description
A figure with arms outstretched, holding a stick in one hand, a line in the other, stands in the upper half of the picture. A seal viewed from above with it's head in the hole fills the bottom half. Left of the figures head is the artists seal.
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Artist
Anna Kingwatsiak (1911 – 1971, Canadian)
Title
Seal Hunter
Date
1970
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
52.7 x 30.1 cm
Description
A figure with arms outstretched, holding a stick in one hand, a line in the other, stands in the upper half of the picture. A seal viewed from above with it's head in the hole fills the bottom half. Left of the figures head is the artists seal.
Subject
figure, male
activity, hunting
animal, fish
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
Catalogue Number
AnA.04.01
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Artist
Nicodemus Nowyook (1902 – 1985, Canadian)
Date
1972
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
NoN.04.01
Description
A long horizontal image of a whale hunt; six hunter in a boat and the whale are black; the wter is a ‘fish-scale’ blue/greenBottom right corner reads “ᓇᐅᔪ ᓂᑯᑎᒧᓯ; ᑕᒥ ᐃᕕ”
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Artist
Nicodemus Nowyook (1902 – 1985, Canadian)
Title
Whale Hunt
Date
1972
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
42.5 x 61.5 cm
Description
A long horizontal image of a whale hunt; six hunter in a boat and the whale are black; the wter is a ‘fish-scale’ blue/greenBottom right corner reads “ᓇᐅᔪ ᓂᑯᑎᒧᓯ; ᑕᒥ ᐃᕕ”
Subject
Figure
male
Animal
whale
Activity
hunting
Credit
Gift of Alison Rossiter, Navesink, USA, 1989
Catalogue Number
NoN.04.01
Images
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Woman Sewing Skin Boots

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Artist
Mary Ashevak (1932 – , Canadian)
Date
1960
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
AsM.04.01
Description
A positive, black image of a woman, dressed in a parka, sewing a skin boot; 3 utensils are near her; titled, numbered, dated and signed in pencil from the left; pasted on the tr back a 2.5 x 1.9 label: Canadian Eskimo Art”.Bottom text reads “Woman Sewing Skin Boots Stone Cut 9/50 Cape Dorset 1960 M…
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Artist
Mary Ashevak (1932 – , Canadian)
Title
Woman Sewing Skin Boots
Date
1960
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
31.0 x 48.8 cm
Description
A positive, black image of a woman, dressed in a parka, sewing a skin boot; 3 utensils are near her; titled, numbered, dated and signed in pencil from the left; pasted on the tr back a 2.5 x 1.9 label: Canadian Eskimo Art”.Bottom text reads “Woman Sewing Skin Boots Stone Cut 9/50 Cape Dorset 1960 M. Ashevak”The series of chops in the top left are as follows: the first red chop denotes Miri (Mary) Ashevak Ezekial, the artist; the second red chop denotes Lukta Qiatsuk, the printer; the black igloo chop denotes that the print was made in the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative in Cape Dorset.
Subject
figure
woman
activity
sewing
Inuit
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
AsM.04.01
Images
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