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Artworks
OHOTAQ MIKKIGAK (1936-2014) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
All-Knowing Shaman, 2000 #24Printmaker: QAVAVAU MANUMIE (1958-) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
stonecut, 27 x 24.5 in (68.6 x 62.2 cm)
5/50LOT 48
ESTIMATE: $250 — $350
PRICE REALIZED: $156.00Returning to drawing and printmaking after his retirement, Ohotaq Mikkigak was a regular in the Annual Print Collection throughout the 2000s and early 2010s. Much of his works were influenced...Returning to drawing and printmaking after his retirement, Ohotaq Mikkigak was a regular in the Annual Print Collection throughout the 2000s and early 2010s. Much of his works were influenced by his time hunting on the land and the stories from his grandmother. In an interview with the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op, he said, "I’ve done a few drawings of shamans, although I’ve never seen one. They are stories, true stories, told by my grandmother."
Provenance
Private Collection, Australia.Literature
Image reproduced in Leslie Boyd Ryan, Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective, (San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2007), p. 253
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