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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: PITSEOLAK ASHOONA, R.C.A., O.C., (1904-1983) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Fleeing Spirit, 1973 #19

PITSEOLAK ASHOONA, R.C.A., O.C., (1904-1983) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)

Fleeing Spirit, 1973 #19
Printmaker: LUKTA QIATSUK (1928-2004) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
stonecut, 24 x 33.75 in (61 x 85.7 cm)
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Fleeing Spirits offers a thrilling scene with two lushly green coloured imaginatively composed spirts engaged is frenzied chase. Devoid of any additional elements for context in the image, however, the...
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Fleeing Spirits offers a thrilling scene with two lushly green coloured imaginatively composed spirts engaged is frenzied chase. Devoid of any additional elements for context in the image, however, the viewer is left with the joy of guessing just from what, exactly, do these creatures run?
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Provenance

Private Collection, Toronto.

Literature

Fleeing Spirits is reproduced in Estrellita Karsh, Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical Symbolism in Eskimo Art, (Ottawa : National Museum of Man, 1977), pl. 3, unpaginated.
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