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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: SILAS QIYUK (1933-2013) OR MIRIAM NANURLUQ QIYUK (1933-2016), QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Mother Bird with Nesting Fledglings , 1974
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: SILAS QIYUK (1933-2013) OR MIRIAM NANURLUQ QIYUK (1933-2016), QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Mother Bird with Nesting Fledglings , 1974
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: SILAS QIYUK (1933-2013) OR MIRIAM NANURLUQ QIYUK (1933-2016), QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Mother Bird with Nesting Fledglings , 1974
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: SILAS QIYUK (1933-2013) OR MIRIAM NANURLUQ QIYUK (1933-2016), QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Mother Bird with Nesting Fledglings , 1974
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: SILAS QIYUK (1933-2013) OR MIRIAM NANURLUQ QIYUK (1933-2016), QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Mother Bird with Nesting Fledglings , 1974

SILAS QIYUK (1933-2013) OR MIRIAM NANURLUQ QIYUK (1933-2016), QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)

Mother Bird with Nesting Fledglings , 1974
stone, 3.75 x 8.75 x 6.5 in (9.5 x 22.2 x 16.5 cm)
signed, dated, and inscribed, "S QIYOK / 1974 / BAKER / LAKE / NWT."
LOT 45
ESTIMATE: $900 — $1,200
PRICE REALIZED: $1,220.00

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ), currently selected., currently selected., currently selected. HISTORIC PERIOD INUIT ARTIST, EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, Whistle, 1935 or earlier
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) HISTORIC PERIOD INUIT ARTIST, EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, Whistle, 1935 or earlier
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) HISTORIC PERIOD INUIT ARTIST, EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, Whistle, 1935 or earlier
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) HISTORIC PERIOD INUIT ARTIST, EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, Whistle, 1935 or earlier
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) HISTORIC PERIOD INUIT ARTIST, EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, Whistle, 1935 or earlier
  • Mother Bird with Nesting Fledglings
Both Silas and his wife Miriam carved works commonly known as “Swimming Birds,” probably because they are invariably conceived in low, horizontal formats, some almost in bas-relief. Some examples may...
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Both Silas and his wife Miriam carved works commonly known as “Swimming Birds,” probably because they are invariably conceived in low, horizontal formats, some almost in bas-relief. Some examples may depict flying or nesting birds. Here Silas created a rustically carved sculpture with more heft, one that clearly shows chicks clustered in their nest. Any ambiguity is not thematic but conceptual and symbolic: the mother bird’s own body forms the nest; her raised wings wrap the chicks in a protective embrace.

References: For other fine examples by the artist see First Arts, 4 Dec. 2023, Lot 121; and Walker’s Auctions, 4 Nov. 2012, Lot 40. For a similar but smaller carving of birds by the artist from 1972 see Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art, (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1978), cat. 33, p. 35.
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Provenance

Acquired at the Sanavik Co-op, Baker Lake by Stanley and Jean Zazelenchuk, NB, 1974.

Exhibitions

Winnipeg, MB, Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art, August - November 1978, cat. 34, as Birds.

Publications

Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1978), cat. 34, p. 35, as Birds.
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