Amarook carved only a small number of works in the early to mid 1960s. Working as a printmaker briefly in the early 1970s, he also managed the printshop. A smaller but stylistically quite similar Muskox from 1962, in the Winnipeg Art Gallery collection, has been exhibited and published several times including in Sculpture/Inuit (cat. 134) and Swinton (1972/92, fig. 700). Muskox is a classic example of the earliest Baker Lake sculptural style. Larger and more massive than most examples carved during this period, the sculpture is rendered even more powerful on account of its blocky shape and solid stance. This contrasts beautifully with the animal’s delicately crafted horns.