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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ANDY MIKI (1918-1983) ARVIAT/TIKIRAQJUAQ (ESKIMO POINT/WHALE COVE), Caribou, c. 1975
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ANDY MIKI (1918-1983) ARVIAT/TIKIRAQJUAQ (ESKIMO POINT/WHALE COVE), Caribou, c. 1975
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ANDY MIKI (1918-1983) ARVIAT/TIKIRAQJUAQ (ESKIMO POINT/WHALE COVE), Caribou, c. 1975
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ANDY MIKI (1918-1983) ARVIAT/TIKIRAQJUAQ (ESKIMO POINT/WHALE COVE), Caribou, c. 1975
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ANDY MIKI (1918-1983) ARVIAT/TIKIRAQJUAQ (ESKIMO POINT/WHALE COVE), Caribou, c. 1975

ANDY MIKI (1918-1983) ARVIAT/TIKIRAQJUAQ (ESKIMO POINT/WHALE COVE)

Caribou, c. 1975
stone and antler, 3.75 x 5 x 1.25 in (9.5 x 12.7 x 3.2 cm)
signed, "ᒥᑭ".
LOT 86
ESTIMATE: $3,000 — $5,000
PRICE REALIZED: $12,200.00

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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) ANDY MIKI (1918-1983) ARVIAT/TIKIRAQJUAQ (ESKIMO POINT/WHALE COVE), Caribou, c. 1975
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) ANDY MIKI (1918-1983) ARVIAT/TIKIRAQJUAQ (ESKIMO POINT/WHALE COVE), Caribou, c. 1975
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) ANDY MIKI (1918-1983) ARVIAT/TIKIRAQJUAQ (ESKIMO POINT/WHALE COVE), Caribou, c. 1975
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) ANDY MIKI (1918-1983) ARVIAT/TIKIRAQJUAQ (ESKIMO POINT/WHALE COVE), Caribou, c. 1975
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) ANDY MIKI (1918-1983) ARVIAT/TIKIRAQJUAQ (ESKIMO POINT/WHALE COVE), Caribou, c. 1975
The great majority of Andy Miki’s sculptures were carved in stone, with relatively few made from caribou antler (see Lot 114 for a wonderful example). Even rarer are works combining...
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The great majority of Andy Miki’s sculptures were carved in stone, with relatively few made from caribou antler (see Lot 114 for a wonderful example). Even rarer are works combining the two materials. This marvelous and endearing Caribou from c. 1975 seems to us to be a reprise of Miki’s impressive Caribou Head from about a decade earlier, in the Vancouver Art Gallery collection. [1] Though considerably smaller than that sculpture, it feels more robust and looks more rugged in form and execution. Also, Caribou is not a “tabletop” sculpture but begs to be held on one’s hand. It leaves no guesswork as to the type of animal it portrays (unlike so many of Miki’s highly abstracted creations). The charmingly rudimentary antlers are, of course, a dead giveaway.


1. See Norman Zepp, Pure Vision (1986), cat. 4, pp. 34, 65; also illustrated in Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, Sculpture/Inuit (1971), cat. 147.


References: For a depiction of a Caribou by Miki dating from about ten years earlier (his Whale Cove period) see Norman Zepp, Pure Vision: The Keewatin Spirit (Regina: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1986), cat. 4, pp. 34, 65. Also illustrated in George Swinton, Sculpture of the Inuit (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972/92), fig. 86, p. 63; and Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, Sculpture / Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971), cat. 147.
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Provenance

Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver, BC;
Acquired from the above Norman Zepp & Judith Varga, Saskatoon, SK, Aug 2015.
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