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Artworks
PITSEOLAK ASHOONA, R.C.A., O.C., (1904-1983) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
Fleeing Spirit, 1973 #19Printmaker: LUKTA QIATSUK (1928-2004) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
stonecut, 24 x 33.75 in (61 x 85.7 cm)
3/50Fleeing Spirits offers a thrilling scene with two lushly green coloured imaginatively composed spirts engaged is frenzied chase. Devoid of any additional elements for context in the image, however, the...Fleeing Spirits offers a thrilling scene with two lushly green coloured imaginatively composed spirts engaged is frenzied chase. Devoid of any additional elements for context in the image, however, the viewer is left with the joy of guessing just from what, exactly, do these creatures run?Provenance
Private Collection, Toronto.
Literature
Fleeing Spirits is reproduced in Estrellita Karsh, Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical Symbolism in Eskimo Art, (Ottawa : National Museum of Man, 1977), pl. 3, unpaginated.
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