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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: MAKUSI PANGUTU ANAUTA (1939-), PUVIRNITUQ (POVUNGNITUK) / AKULIVIK, Mother Lemming, Sheltering her Young, 1961
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: MAKUSI PANGUTU ANAUTA (1939-), PUVIRNITUQ (POVUNGNITUK) / AKULIVIK, Mother Lemming, Sheltering her Young, 1961
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    MAKUSI PANGUTU ANAUTA (1939-), PUVIRNITUQ (POVUNGNITUK) / AKULIVIK

    Mother Lemming, Sheltering her Young, 1961
    stone, 3 x 2 x 2.75 in (7.6 x 5.1 x 7 cm)
    inscribed with partial disc number, "354";
    with affixed label from La Guilde (The Canadian Handicrafts Guild), in blue ink, "P61 / Markoosie / WDS 10.00”
    LOT 39
    ESTIMATE: $100 — $200
    PRICE REALIZED: $48.80
    25 September 2025

    Further images

    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) UNIDENTIFIED NUU-CHAH-NULTH ARTIST, Two Model Totem Poles, c. 1930s / 1940s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) UNIDENTIFIED NUU-CHAH-NULTH ARTIST, Two Model Totem Poles, c. 1930s / 1940s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) UNIDENTIFIED NUU-CHAH-NULTH ARTIST, Two Model Totem Poles, c. 1930s / 1940s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) UNIDENTIFIED NUU-CHAH-NULTH ARTIST, Two Model Totem Poles, c. 1930s / 1940s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) UNIDENTIFIED NUU-CHAH-NULTH ARTIST, Two Model Totem Poles, c. 1930s / 1940s
    Mother Lemming, Sheltering Her Young is a study in tenderness rendered through economy. The composition merges two forms into a single, seamless curve, the mother’s body arcing gently over the...
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    Mother Lemming, Sheltering Her Young is a study in tenderness rendered through economy. The composition merges two forms into a single, seamless curve, the mother’s body arcing gently over the young in a gesture of both containment and care. It is not a sculpture of action but of presence. Their eyes, incised with minimal detail, suggest watchfulness rather than fear. The surface is well modulated and is heightened by the impact of each small etched line of whiskers, claws, and the contour of a flank. This is shelter as sculpture, affection made durable in stone.
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    Provenance

    Ex. Coll. Colin John Grasset Molson (C.J.G ), Montreal.
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