ELIZABETH QUINANAGNAQ ANGRNAGANGRNIQ (1938-) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)
signed, "ᐃᓕᓴᐱ ᑯᐃᓇᓇ";
titled and dated, "Birds / 2009" to the accompanying igloo tag.
ESTIMATE: $2,000 — $3,000
Elizabeth Angrnagangrniq and her husband, Samson Quinangnaq, resisted settling in the community of Baker Lake until the late 1960s. She soon began creating works on cloth, as did so many women at the time. A lovely semi-abstract hanging by her won a Craftsmanship and Design Award in the 1974 Crafts from Arctic Canada competition and exhibition [1]. Thirty Birds is an elegantly laid out example of Elizabeth Angrnagangrniq’s work. As if sitting amongst the low-lying Arctic flora, settled in during a spring day, the eponymous subjects are arranged by colour, form, and texture in mirrored lines. Their own stitched plumage, either coloured or variegated, pops against the alternating lines of feather stitches on the background. Lovely.
1. Crafts from Arctic Canada, (Ottawa: Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, 1974), cat. 231 (illustrated on p. 54).
Provenance
Collection of Sally Qimmiu’naaq Webster, Ottawa.Sally and her husband David Webster returned from Ottawa to Baker Lake for five years (1997-2002), during which time she owned and operated Baker Lake Fine Arts.
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