Showing posts with label inuit art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inuit art. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

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La Sculpture Inuit Canadienne (French and Japanese editions), Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa, 1992/1993

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Rankin Inlet





Arlook Arluk, Figure, 1972, grey stone / John Kavin, Figure, 1973, black stone / John Kavin, Figure, 1973, black stone / John Tiktak, Standing Figure, grey stone 

Selections from Rankin Inlet - On Loan to The Winnipeg Art Gallery, from a one page exhibition checklist, no date.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

inua to the inuit



artist unknown (Port Harrison), Miki (Whale Cove), Kavik (Rankin Inlet)
The Eskimo Art Collection of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, no date
thanks abi!

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

My ideas come from up in the air






Woman and Child, Temela Pitsiulak, green stone, ivory, and blacking, 1962 / Son leading father to die, Nakyuraq Akpaliapik, whalebone, and black insets, 1961 / Bird/Man, Iola Abraham Ikkidluak, whalebone, black insets, and graphite, 1968 / Man and woman, artist unknown, ivory, no date / Drum Dancer (detail), Peter Alooloo, whalebone, bone, gutskin, and black insets, 1962

Baffin Island, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983 (post title, Lypa Pitsulak)

Friday, February 10, 2012

[inuit]

The Winnipeg Art Gallery, May 1979 (newsletter)
The Bessie Bulman Collection, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1973
Inuit, The Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, Winnipeg, 1971
The Eskimo Collection of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, Toronto, 1978

(from yesterday's book market)

Monday, December 5, 2011

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Woman's comb by Luke Iqualla, Gjoa Haven, bone, c. 1974
from Inuit Arts and Crafts, Number 2, December 1984

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

igluviak

from Building an Igloo by Ulli Steltzer (text and photos), Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto, 1981
Tookillkee Kiguktak and his son Jopee demonstrate building an igloo. They live in Griese Fiord, on Ellesmere Island (Canadian arctic).

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

spirits and spirit helpers

Harpoon head, Lazaroosee Akspaliak, 1975, Arctic Bay & Harpoon Head-figure, Dorset Culture, Igloolik area / Shaman's teeth, Dorset culture, Igloolik area, ivory / Mask, pre-1913, Coastal Ungava, sealskin and sinew / Shaman's mask, pre-1925, East Greenland, sealskin, fur, twine, and sinew / Harpoon head, artist unknown, 1963, Cape Dorset & Flying Bear, artist unknown, Eskimo Point / Man, Dorset culture, Igloolik area, ivory
from The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art by Jean Blodgett, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 1978 (cover here at R4TH (I finally found it))

Thursday, August 25, 2011

oiseau

At some point, this tag became separated from its carving and ended up in this book. I can't seem to find any information on Joshua Sheeb.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Baker Lake

Magdalene Ukpatiku and Philippa Aningrniq Iksiraq at work / The World of Man and the World of Animals Come Together in the Shaman, drawing and print by Simon Tookoome, 1974
from BAKER LAKE: Prints & Print-Drawings 1970-76, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 1983

Monday, July 11, 2011

Ayii, Ayii

Spirit, Dorset culture, ivory / Bird in flight, artist unknown, Hebron, before 1912, ivory / Ptarmigans, Joanassie, Cape Dorset, 1960, black stone / Face, Dorset culture, ivory

from Sculpture/Inuit (Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic), Canadian Eskimo Arts Council/University of Toronto Press, 1971

Sunday, June 12, 2011

MIKI

Mary Kahootsuak Miki, 1977 / Andy Miki, 1976 (Arviat)
from The First Passionate Collector: The Ian Lindsay Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1990

Monday, March 21, 2011

Impression of carver who has never seen a tree

Caribou Spirit by Tudlik, Cape Dorset / Man Kneeling (granite) by Tudlik, Cape Dorset / Birds in a Tree ---Impression of carver who has never seen a tree by Ittorchiak, Frobisher Bay
from Canadian Eskimo Art, The Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources, Ottawa, 1965---Design and Layout by James A. Houston. Photos by Bert Beaver and The National Film Board, Canada.