VICTORIA MAMNGUQSUALUK (1930-2016) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)
If I kill the Leader with the fleshless legs, they will leave us and not eat our people / The Confrontation, 1970 #18
Printmaker: MARTHA NOAH (1943-) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE) / Cutter / Platemaker: VITAL MAKPAAQ (1922-1978) QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)
stonecut and stencil, 25 x 37.25 in (63.5 x 94.6 cm)
27/40
stonecut and stencil, 25 x 37.25 in (63.5 x 94.6 cm)
27/40
LOT 18
ESTIMATE: $350 — $500
PRICE REALIZED: $336.00
ESTIMATE: $350 — $500
PRICE REALIZED: $336.00
Goetz explains that while the work is titled, 'If I kill the Leader with the leader with the fleshless legs, they will leave us and not eat our people,' the...
Goetz explains that while the work is titled, "If I kill the Leader with the leader with the fleshless legs, they will leave us and not eat our people," the syllabic inscription on the print "suggests that a game, not unlike dodge-ball, is being played."
Provenance
Private Collection, Hamilton.Literature
This print is reproduced in Helga Goetz, The Inuit Print, international travelling exhibition, (Ottawa: National Museums of Canada and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, 1977), pl. 116, p. 203, as "The Confrontation".Join Our Mailing List
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