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Artworks
VITAL OKOKTOK (1912-D) KANGIQLINIQ (RANKIN INLET)
Totemic Composition, c. mid 1960sstone, 9.5 x 3.25 x 3.25 in (24.1 x 8.3 x 8.3 cm)
signed, "OKOTOK".LOT 7
ESTIMATE: $1,500 — $2,500
PRICE REALIZED: $2,280.00Further images
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Okoktok moved to Rankin Inlet probably in the late 1950s. He carved there mainly in the 1960s, a colleague of Tiktak and Kavik. Okoktok was not prolific, however, and unfortunately...Okoktok moved to Rankin Inlet probably in the late 1950s. He carved there mainly in the 1960s, a colleague of Tiktak and Kavik. Okoktok was not prolific, however, and unfortunately his work is much less well known than it should be. Totemic Composition is a mysterious and quite powerful work, similar in style but more complex than a work published in George Swinton’s Sculpture of the Inuit (1972/92, fig. 637) and a handful of other examples that we have seen. The imagery is enigmatic but probably represents either a family or a group of ancestors – or both. The hatch-marks at the four corners possibly symbolize women’s braids and hairsticks; if so the upper face at the “front” of the sculpture would likely be the matriarch of the family. Impressive.Provenance
Collection of John and Joyce Price, Seattle. -
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