Davidialuk’s inscription can be read as “a long story of one who suddenly grew big.” A related version appears in Eskimo / Inuit Stories: Povungnituk (1969/88, pp. 68 to 71), where famine drives travellers to an abandoned igloo that shelters an infant girl grown to monstrous size. She wears her mother’s amautiq as a necklace and pursues the group until, spent, she turns to stone. In Davidialuk’s telling, the child is a boy, a small but telling reminder that for the artist, story and myth remain living things, reshaped in the telling.

Here, the unfortunate figure is carved through deep recess and sharp release. The proportions read clearly as child-like, with a shorter torso and compact limbs. The too-small amautiq hood and collar gather at the neck in thick, bunched folds, cut with deep undercuts and channelled so the head sits forward in its own pocket of space, while the front flap and tail press against the figure’s chest. In his right hand, the boy holds his trousers, now much too small to wear, to reinforce the sense of sudden, awkward growth in the boy.