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Harpooning a Walrus
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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”
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AvI.04.01
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Kayak out of Dog's Reach
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactars.04.01
- 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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- 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
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- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
- Catalogue Number
- AnA.04.01
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- 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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- 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”
- Credit
- Gift of Alison Rossiter, Navesink, USA, 1989
- Catalogue Number
- NoN.04.01
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Woman Sewing Skin Boots
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- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- AsM.04.01
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