UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, possibly QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)
unsigned.
ESTIMATE: $200 — $300
Further images
Traditionally a gathering place for many different groups of Inuit, Qamani'tuaq is quite the hub of artistic expression in northern Canada. The local geography provides the dark, hard basalt that has defined carvings from the region for decades, and sitting inland at the mouth of the Thelon River allows for a variety of arctic fauna to wander by, particularly caribou. This charming depiction of a rather jovial antler Inuk, brilliantly carved and polished, seems almost portrait-like and is small enough that it could conceivably have been carved as a talisman.
Provenance
Collection of Vivian Julien, a schoolteacher who worked in the Canadian Arctic from the late 1950s until the mid 1970s;
by descent to a Private Collection, Ontario.
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