Romeo Eekerkik is arguably one of the most underrated artists of his generation and in many respects deserves to be seen as a topflight documentarian, not unlike Ennutsiak or Joe Talirunili.

In a community where most artists were working in stone, Eekerkik chose caribou antler as his preferred medium. Unlike most carvers who worked with the natural shapes suggested by the raw material, Eekerkik eschewed the monolithic (or its antler equivalent) and constructed his compositions with a multitude of elements and materials. Another revolutionary aspect of Eekerkik’s oeuvre was his adornment of his caribou antler elements. Eeekerkik would literally torch areas of his surfaces as a manner of patination. Also unique to Eekerkik was the use of compound materials as embellishment. In this marvelous sculpture he has used an amalgamation of adhesive and stone dust to depict his subjects’ hairstyles!