This original carving is by Mark Papikatuk, Cape Dorset (Kinngait) on the south coast of Baffin Island. Made of green/brown steatite, the carving measures 9x4x3cms.

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This Eider Duck by Joe Kavik from Sanikiluaq in the south of Hudson's Bay on the Belcher Islands. Made out of grey argillite, the duck measures 5.5x5x11cms.

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This seal carving is by Eva Nakootak based in Iqaluit, formerly known as Frobisher Bay and the capital of Nunavut. Made from black serpentine, it measures 4x5x12cms.

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This basking seal carving is made by Johnny Kittosuk based in Sanikiluaq which is in the south of Hudson's Bay on the Belcher Islands. Made from banded grey argillite, it measures 5x3x14cms.

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This unusual carving of a gazing seal is by Peter Kilabuk from Iqaluit, formerly known as Frobisher Bay and the capital of Nunavut. Made from green serpentine, it measures 6x6x9cms.

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This study of an owl by Allasuaq Sharky based in Kinngait, Cape Dorset on the south coast of Baffin Island is made from marbled green steatite and measures 5x5x9cms.

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Box of 20 notecards and envelopes, 5 each of 4 designs by Kenojuak Ashevak printed by Dorset Fine Arts using soy-based inks on recycled paper.

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The 2013 Inuit Art Calendar features some of the best work of the women artists of Cape Dorset and celebrates their extraordinary contributions to the Kinngait Studios. The striking colours and designs of Kenojuak Ashevak, Mayoreak Ashoona, Ningeokuluk Teevee, Annie Pootoogook and their fellow artists jump off the page in this collection of 12 strong images.

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Sarah Iootna was born in 1926 in a traditional Inuit camp near Padlei on the West Coast of Hudsons Bay, Canada. She carves these dolls from Caribou antler (a renewable resource, shed by the animal annually), the arms and legs are attached with sinew. Although the dolls do vary in size, they are all priced at £22.00.

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Observers of children know that, for a child, anything can become a doll: a stick, a leaf, a bit of ragged leather, a peculiarly shaped stone, a tuft of fur.

Beneath the delights of doll play is a more serious and adult purpose: teaching children the skills that will be required when they grow up. By imitating their mothers, little girls learn how to feed, dress and care for a baby. They observe how a baby should be carried, whether in a cradle board or slunk into a hood or astride the hip. They also learn the technical skills needed to make clothes for the family - an art that is for the most part a woman's responsibility.

In the past, when everything was made by hand, children began very young, often by working alongside their mothers or grandmothers, to learn how to scrape and tan hides, spin thread and weave it into cloth, or sew boots with animal sinew. Much practice was required to transform a raw caribou skin or a handful of cedar bark into a neatly finished garment. making doll clothes was a way to learn these essential skills.

Sewing our Traditions is a collection of hand-made dolls created by Inuit and First Nations from across the Canadian North. The dolls represent historical and contemporary perspectives on northern traditions, fashion and culture.

These dolls record and reflect Canadian life and customs. Using natural and modern materials the doll makers have created evocative portraits of their cultural identity. From tiny intricate details like beaded moccasins to locally trapped fur and home-tanned hide, the Yukon Arts Centre is excited to bring together these truly exceptional examples of fine craft from the three territories that are Canada's North.

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On southwestern Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut, the artists of Cape Dorset have been making prints since 1959. Diverse print media have been employed over the years, including linoblock, copper engraving, etching/aquatint, and woodcut, but the studios’ mainstays are stonecut and lithography. In stonecut, artists bring their drawings to the studio, where skilled printmakers transfer their work to the stone printing surface. Editions are limited to fifty hand-pulled original prints. The beauty of the collaborative process is highlighted in the lithography studio, where artists may work directly on the litho stone or plate, consulting with the printmakers through the proofing stage. The studios are active from the fall each year through late spring, when editioning is completed and the staff takes the summer off, making frequent trips to their traditional camping areas on the land. The images reproduced in this folio are by the well-known Inuit artist Kananginak Pootoogook. A respected community elder, Kananginak has been contributing his work to the Kinngait (pronounced “King-ite”) studios since the first print collection was released in 1959. A keen observer of Arctic wildlife, he counts the polar bear as one of his favorite subjects.

Ten full-color blank notecards (5 each of 2 styles) with envelopes in a decorative folio. ISBN 978-0-7649-3349-3.

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The images in this pattern are derived from fabric designs created in the 1960s and 1970s by Inuit artists living in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut.

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Ohotaq Mikkigak
Curious Owl, 2003, Postcard
Stonecut and stencil
Printer: Arnaqu Ashevak.

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Kenojuak Ashevak
Darting Raven, 2005, Postcard
Etching and aquatint
Printer: Studio PM.

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Features Feathering the Nest (2003) by Kavavaow Mannomee, who is one of the premier artists working at Cape Dorset's famed Kinngait Studios, an internationally renowned printmaking centre founded by the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in the late 1950s. His themes include Inuit legends and mythology, Arctic wildlife, and contemporary aspects of Inuit life.

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Kenojuak Ashevak is contemporary Inuit art’s most well-known artist. She grew up traveling between hunting camps on Baffin Island and northern Quebec. In the late 1950s, Kenojuak met James Houston, a federal administrator who was encouraging the Inuit of Cape Dorset to make carvings, drawings, and prints to be sold to southern Canada and abroad. He encouraged Kenojuak to create sealskin appliqué designs. The bold outlines and simple forms of her appliqué work were well suited for the prints being created by the newly established West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. Her drawings were among the first by an Inuk woman to be made into prints.

Lucy Qinnuayuak, who was also encouraged by James Houston, was a prolific graphic artist who is best known for her fanciful arctic bird images. She lived a traditional way of life until the early 1960s, when she moved to Cape Dorset. Her drawings were turned into prints from 1961 until 1983.

Pitaloosie Saila spent her childhood years in various hospitals in Quebec and Ontario for treatment of tuberculosis. Her work has been included in annual Cape Dorset collections since 1968 and has been featured in many solo drawing exhibitions. In 1977 Canada Post issued a stamp based on her print Fisherman’s Dream.

Published with the Art Gallery of Ontario. Twenty assorted full-color 5 x 7" blank note cards (five each of four styles) with envelopes and decorative box. ISBN 978-0-7649-4670-7.

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Kavavaow Mannomee (Canadian, b. 1958) was born in Brandon, Manitoba, where his mother, Paunichea, was hospitalized for treatment of tuberculosis. He returned to Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, as a very young child and has lived there ever since. Today he is one of the premier artists working at Cape Dorset’s famed Kinngait Studios, an internationally renowned printmaking center founded by the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in the late 1950s. The annual release of Cape Dorset prints is eagerly anticipated by collectors around the world.

Kavavaow is an accomplished and precise printmaker who has demonstrated a range of styles over the years—from the very literal to the more expressive. His themes include Inuit legends and mythology, Arctic wildlife, and contemporary aspects of Inuit life, and he enjoys demonstrating printmaking techniques to young artists and visitors to the studio.

More information on the artists of Cape Dorset can be found in Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective; Fifty Years of Printmaking at the Kinngait Studios by Leslie Boyd Ryan (Pomegranate, 2007), the first book to tell the full story of this historic community.

Published with Dorset Fine Arts. Twenty assorted 5 x 7" blank note cards (5 each of 4 styles) with envelopes and decorative box. ISBN: 978-0-7649-4560-1.

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Inuit Art greeting card by Kenojuak Ashevak.

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Pudlo Pudlat
Our Massive Friend, 1984, Postcard
Stonecut
Printer: Pee Mikiga.

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In the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut, the artists of Cape Dorset have been making limited edition fine art prints since 1959. An array of techniques has long been available to the printmakers—etching and aquatint, copper engraving, stencil, and woodcut—but the studios’ mainstays are stonecut and lithography.

The Kinngait Studios are active from fall until late spring, when the artists and staff take the summer off, many to return to their traditional camp areas. The Inuit treasure their language and stories, their connection to the land and its resources, even as they adopt modern ways.

The resplendent, all-seeing, regal, and antlered owls that appear on these cards illustrate the unique styles of four renowned Inuit artists from Cape Dorset.

Contains five each of the following notecards:Ohotaq Mikkigak, Owl Incognito, 2008
Ningeokuluk Teevee, Owls in Moonlight, 2007
Kavavaow Mannomee, Grey Owl, 1993
Kenojuak Ashevak, Vigilant Owl, 2007

Twenty assorted 5 x 7” blank notecards (5 each of 4 styles) with envelopes in a decorative box. Click on the small picture to see the cards. ISBN 978-0-7649-5444-3.

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Preening Owl by Kenojuak Ashevak, from Dorset Fine Arts.

Ten 3 1/2 x 5 inch blank notecards with "Thank You" printed on the front and white envelopes in an acetate-topped four-color box. ISBN 978-0-7649-4230-3.

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Cape Dorset, also known as Kinngait (pronounced “King-ite”) for its high, rolling hills, is a thriving Inuit community in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut, about 1,200 miles due north of Toronto. It is home to the Kinngait Studios, which have been operating there for close to fifty years—the longest continuously running print studios in Canada. Drawing on the community’s wealth of artistic talent, a team of skilled Inuit printmakers work with the artists in editioning their work. The studios are active from the fall each year through late spring, at which time editioning is completed and the staff takes the summer off, making frequent trips out to their traditional camping areas on the land.

The studios are owned and managed by the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, which also markets the work—both sculpture and prints—produced by its Inuit artist members to galleries throughout the world. Since its inception in 1959, the co-op has worked to promote the artistic expression of the Inuit by encouraging the exchange of ideas, techniques, and inspiration among artists from all over the world. Inuit artists have attained international recognition for artistic excellence. The notecards in this collection confirm their deserved reputation.

Twenty 5 x 7" blank notecards (five each of four styles) with white envelopes in a decorative box. ISBN: 0-7649-3309-4.

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Kenojuak Ashevak
Siilavut, Nunavut (Our Environment, Our Land), 1999, Postcard
Lithograph diptych
Printer: Pitseolak Niviaqsi.

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Kananginak Pootoogook
Aiviq Qiturngalik (Walrus with Young), 2005, Postcard
Stonecut and stencil
Printer: Qiatsuq Niviaqsi.

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Nikotai Mills
Tulliarait (Young Loons), 1996, Postcard
Stonecut and Stencil
Printer: Kavavaow Mannomee.

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Inukshuk (pl Inuksuit), meaning "likeness of a person" in Inuktitut (the Inuit language), is a figure made by arranging stones in the shape of a human being, often between 5 and 7 feet tall. The Inuit and Tuniit (Inuit from Cape Dorset) used the Inukshuk to mark trails, indicate caches of food, the location of nearby settlements and the location of good places to hunt or fish.

The Inukshuk, though made of inanimate rock, embodies the spirit and persistence of the Inuit who live and flourish in one of the world's harshest environments.

This Inukshuk carving has been crafted by Pits Koperqualuk, an Inuit artist of the Cape Dorset community, Southern Baffin Island, Canada and comes with information about the artist and origin of the piece.

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Inukshuk (pl Inuksuit), meaning "likeness of a person" in Inuktitut (the Inuit language), is a figure made by arranging stones in the shape of a human being, often between 5 and 7 feet tall. The Inuit and Tuniit (Inuit from Cape Dorset) used the Inukshuk to mark trails, indicate caches of food, the location of nearby settlements and the location of good places to hunt or fish.

The Inukshuk, though made of inanimate rock, embodies the spirit and persistence of the Inuit who live and flourish in one of the world's harshest environments.

This Inukshuk carving has been crafted by Turaq Ragee, an Inuit artist of the Cape Dorset community, Southern Baffin Island, Canada and comes with information about the artist and origin of the piece.

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This unusually coloured Inukshuk is by Kove Ottokie who is based in Kinngait, on the south coast of Baffin Island. The Inukshuk measures 10x3x6cms.

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Inukshuk (pl Inuksuit), meaning "likeness of a person" in Inuktitut (the Inuit language), is a figure made by arranging stones in the shape of a human being, often between 5 and 7 feet tall. The Inuit and Tuniit (Inuit from Cape Dorset) used the Inukshuk to mark trails, indicate caches of food, the location of nearby settlements and the location of good places to hunt or fish. The Inukshuk, though made of inanimate rock, embodies the spirit and persistence of the Inuit who live and flourish in one of the world's harshest environments. This Inukshuk carving has been crafted by Turaq Ragee, an Inuit artist of the Cape Dorset community, Southern Baffin Island, Canada and comes with information about the artist and origin of the piece.

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Lithograph by Kenojuak Ashevak (Canadian, born 1927) printed by Dorset Fine Arts.

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These walrus figurines are made from polished caribou horn by Mosha Arnakak from Pangnirtung on the east coast of Baffin Island. Their measurements are 7x2x2cms.

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Only the Scott Hessian Carrier bags, Centenary ties and pins are left in stock now. We have sold out of mugs and thimbles.

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Etching and aquatint by Kananginak Pootoogook (Canadian, born 1935) printed by Dorset Fine Arts.

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These elegant swans by Tony Curley are made from green steatite. Tony is based at Cape Dorset (Kinngait) which is on the south coast of Baffin Island. The swans are priced at £110 (6x10x3cms) and £120 (7x10x4cms).

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