Winter Camp Scene offers viewers a glimpse of communal life in the North. The work invites comparison with Kiakshuk’s Igloo and Dog Team (Lot 10), an affinity that is unsurprising given that Pitseolak was Kiakshuk’s niece. Reflecting on her uncle’s influence, she once remarked: “I really liked the way he [Kiakshuk] put the old Eskimo life on paper. ”[1] Yet Pitseolak’s vision diverges from his. Here, the human figure takes a more prominent role than in Kiakshuk's print. People peer from between the domes of snowhouses and through open doorways, while hunters, children, and animals bring the surrounding space to life.

1. Pitseolak Ashoona and Dorothy Eber, Pitseolak: Pictures out of my life, (Montreal / Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1971), unpaginated.