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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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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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Woman in the Sea
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacteeg.04.01
- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- EeG.04.01
- Description
- A mermaid, happy face with arms outstretched, has a blue fish-scale body, fish tail. She is enclosed in a ribbon of bark textured seaweed? black with yellow tinge.
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- Title
- Woman in the Sea
- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 42; 44 x 50; 50 cm
- Description
- A mermaid, happy face with arms outstretched, has a blue fish-scale body, fish tail. She is enclosed in a ribbon of bark textured seaweed? black with yellow tinge.
- Subject
- mythological
- female
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- EeG.04.01
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Spirit - Bird, Bear, Hunter
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactiol.06.01
- Artist
- Iola
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- IoL.06.01
- Description
- Mottled grey stone, solid carved block. Owl-like bird has a bear draped fully over back. Back of bird and under the bear are 2 carved faces, one 11.0x8.5, other 6.0x4.5. The bird and the bear have ivory inset round eyes, bird's 1.0 dia. bear's .4 dia. Some other dark substance inset into the eyes …
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- Artist
- Iola
- Title
- Spirit - Bird, Bear, Hunter
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 16.8 x 20.6 cm
- Description
- Mottled grey stone, solid carved block. Owl-like bird has a bear draped fully over back. Back of bird and under the bear are 2 carved faces, one 11.0x8.5, other 6.0x4.5. The bird and the bear have ivory inset round eyes, bird's 1.0 dia. bear's .4 dia. Some other dark substance inset into the eyes as pupils. The base which is part of the block is a triangular shape 21.0x20.9.
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- IoL.06.01
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- Artist
- Kodeaniuk
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- KoD.06.01
- Description
- dark green, almost black, stone; walrus is the central figure; ivory tusk 3.2 x 0.4 dia. fit into 2 drilled holes; dexter figure is a polar bear; sinister figure is a seal; carved ears; incised eyes and mouths; flat bottom cuts the animals in half; walrus facing front; bear and seal looking u…
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- Artist
- Kodeaniuk
- Title
- Spirit
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Dimensions
- 11.2 x 9.5 cm
- Description
- dark green, almost black, stone; walrus is the central figure; ivory tusk 3.2 x 0.4 dia. fit into 2 drilled holes; dexter figure is a polar bear; sinister figure is a seal; carved ears; incised eyes and mouths; flat bottom cuts the animals in half; walrus facing front; bear and seal looking up.
- Subject
- animal, walrus
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- KoD.06.01
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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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- Artist
- Ping
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- PiN.06.01 a-e
- Description
- A five piece assembled sculpture of 2 flying birds. (a) base 2.0x8.0x4.1, black stone. Hand turned palm up with fingers clenched, fingernails carved in. Hole drilled in palm. (b) ivory support 4.6x1.5x.7. Centre has black cross both sides (c) support, ivory 4.0x6.0x.9, in shape of a w. Hole …
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- Artist
- Ping
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Description
- A five piece assembled sculpture of 2 flying birds. (a) base 2.0x8.0x4.1, black stone. Hand turned palm up with fingers clenched, fingernails carved in. Hole drilled in palm. (b) ivory support 4.6x1.5x.7. Centre has black cross both sides (c) support, ivory 4.0x6.0x.9, in shape of a w. Hole in centre bottom, round pegs at top each end. One broken off (stuck inside bird) (d) flying bird, ivory, 1.5x5.0x6.0. Head and wings outstretched, webbed feet, pointed backwards. Carved wing feathers and tail. Black 'arches' design simulate feathers on back and wings. Black eyes. Hole in belly. (e) bird, ivory, 1.3x5.5x5.7, same as (d) Top of peg (c) broken off in hole in belly.
- Subject
- birds
- mythological
- hand
- flying
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- PiN.06.01 a-e
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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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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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Men with Animals
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactkia.04.07
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Medium
- copper engraving on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KiA.04.07
- Description
- Stylized images of animals and three people float randomly on the page. One of the animals is half animal and half bird. One of the people tlc is a black image. Off to the right of the image is an embossed circle 2.8 dia. with letters inside. Bottom reads “23/50 Dorset 1962 Kiakshuk”Back reads “#26…
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- Title
- Men with Animals
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Medium
- copper engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- 33.2 x 48.5 cm
- Description
- Stylized images of animals and three people float randomly on the page. One of the animals is half animal and half bird. One of the people tlc is a black image. Off to the right of the image is an embossed circle 2.8 dia. with letters inside. Bottom reads “23/50 Dorset 1962 Kiakshuk”Back reads “#265 DOR/IF 1962-14”Canadian Eskimo Arts Council (CEAC) embossed chop in br
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- KiA.04.07
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