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The site consists of over 150 carvings of faces in soapstone. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was created by the Dorset people , the culture who inhabited the Canadian eastern Arctic and Greenland beginning approximately 2,200 years ago before disappearing approximately 1,000 years ago, and who inhabited the region prior to the Thule Inuit who arrived ...
Osuitok Ipeelee RCA (Inuktitut: ᐅᓱᐃᑐ ᐃᐱᓕ, [1] 23 September 1923 - 2005 [2]) was an Inuk sculptor who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut.His sculptures in green soapstone of caribou and birds are particularly valued for their balance and delicacy.
The first generation of Inuit artists in Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset) in the 1940s and 1950s sold their carvings to the Baffin Trading Company (1939–1946) and the Hudson's Bay Company. The West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative was founded in Kinngait in 1959 and became the primary purchaser of arts and craft items.
Angutitok used soapstone, ivory and whalebone in her art. Some of her sculptures portray scenes from the Bible; she was encouraged by Father Bernie Franzen. She also created sculptures of female figures. [1] In 2002, Canada Post created a Christmas stamp based on her sculpture Mary and Child. [2] [5]
The gallery had collected Inuit art since 1957, initially, in part, due to Winnipeg’s business dealings with the Arctic, [4] that is the city's historical status as a trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). [5] Since 1972, there has been a full-time curator at the gallery for this collection. [6]
The Naujaat community continues to rely on traditional sealing, fishing, hunting, trapping, and carving for their livelihood, together with tourism. Naujaat is known for its Inuit artists , especially carvers (typically creating small realist animal sculptures of ivory, soapstone, marble and antler), as well as jewellery and crafts.
His work titled Hunter, possibly the first large figurative piece of Inuit sculpture, [3] was part of a collection of Inuit art that was acquired by the TD Bank Financial Group in 1951. His work received recognition as part of an exhibition of Inuit art known as The Coronation Exhibition held at Gimpel Fils in London, England in 1953. [ 4 ]
In 1972, his brother Abraham Anghik Ruben introduced him to stone carving. [2] He also studied books on art. [3] He attributes the impetus behind making his work to art patron Dr. Allan Gonor from North Battleford, Saskatchewan in 1974. Gonor suggested he use stories Piqtoukun collected in his sculpture. [4] Gonor told Piqtoukun:
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