Thanks to the McMichael’s Iningat Ilagiit (ᐃᓂᖓᑦ ᐃᓚᒌᑦ), we can readily compare Pudlo’s drawing for Eskimo Woman with Ulu with its printed form [1]. Printer Eliyah Pootoogook remains faithful to Pudlo’s playful proportions — comically tiny limbs, wide eyes, and an oversized ulu — while transforming the work through stencil printing. In place of Pudlo’s delicate pencil shading, Pootoogook employs a subtly toned stencil that, in this impression, layers a rich plum hue below black to produce a bold, velvety, high-contrast image.

Eskimo Woman with Ulu belongs to the Dorset Series, a group of roughly seventy prints also known as the Dorset Collection, Northern Collection, or Northern Releases. Unlike the annual Cape Dorset print collections circulated through southern galleries, these works were sold locally to visitors through the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op.