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Museum catalogue: Inuit Art Collection

 

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Here you can browse the complete listing of all the Inuit Art Collection (INUA) items.

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There are 227 items in this collection, of which 77 are shown below. Use the navigation to view more pages.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/66

Shaman's head

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/67

Seal and dog

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/68

Drum dancer

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/69

Owl outspread

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Record: Y: 2010/10/7

Caribou man

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/70

Sherman's sister

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/71

Tupilak

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/72

Tupilak

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/73

Tupilak

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/74

Tupilak

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/75

Tupilak hunter and seal

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/76

Bird with fish by Shorty Killiktee

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/77

Mother and child

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Faces

Record: Y: 2010/10/78

Polished, dark-stone abstract sculpture by Inuit artist Alex Alikashuak, 1999

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/79

Musk ox

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Record: Y: 2010/10/8

Birds encompass owl

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/80

Bird Spirit

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/81

Owl shaman

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/82

Hunter carrying a cub

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/83

Dancing seal

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/84

Owl and lemming

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/85

Seated bear

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/86

Unexplainable joy of becoming grandparents

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/87

Basking seal

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Record: Y: 2010/10/9

Two kudliks (quilliqs)

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/10/91

Woman and child

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Record: Y: 2010/10/92

Woman Watching Fish

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Record: Y: 2010/10/93

Untitled (two birds and two bears)

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/11/1

Self portrait (bust)

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/11/2

My granddaughter, Marie Evaluardjuk

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/11/3

My wife, Tapeeta Evaluardjuk

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/11/4

A young woman

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/11/5

Widowmaker

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/11/6

Family

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/47/11

Angry bear

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Martin Frobisher

Record: Y: 2010/48/2

A steatite (soapstone) sculpture of a mechanical digger truck with a loaded scoop of fool's gold, by artist Jamasie Pitseolak of Kinngait, Nunavut, 2009. The work is an ironic reference to the "gold", actually iron pyrites, found on Baffin Island by British sixteenth-century sailor Martin Frobisher.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/56

Hunter pulling seal

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/58

Hawk by Shorty Killiktee

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/61

Carving, Whale, by Jaco Ishulutaq from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Baffin Island.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/76

Carving, Animal in dark stone

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/77

Reed basket (a) with argillite knop on lid (b).

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/78

Reed basket (a) with argillite knop on lid (b)

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/79

Bird (no name). Artist: Kalai Adla, 1975.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2010/80

Carving, Owl. Artist: Toona Iqulik, Qamanittuaq, 1995

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Man killing bear

Record: Y: 2012/11/1a-b

Soapstone carving of a hunter spearing a bear by Pilipusi Tukai. Puvirnituq (Povungnituk), Quebec, Nunavik, Canada, before 1970.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2012/11/2

Soapstone carving of a woman with two children. Artist unknown. Inukjuaq (Port Harrison), Quebec, Nunavik, Canada, before 1970.

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Basket

Record: Y: 2012/11/3

Grass woven basket, Yup'ik, made in Hooper Bay, Alaska.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2012/11/4

Carving, mother and child, green soapstone, eastern Siberia.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2012/11/5

Carving, salt and pepper pots, Alaskan walrus tusk.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2012/11/6

Carving, walrus, Alaskan walrus tusk.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2012/11/7

Carving, polar bear, Alaskan walrus tusk.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2012/11/8

Carving, bird, Alaskan walrus tusk, posssibly a ptarmigan.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2012/11/9

Carving, seated billiken figure, Alaskan walrus tusk.

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Paungait

Record: Y: 2012/3

Print titled Paungait (Berries) by Kananginak Pootoogook, 2011, numbered 39/50

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Carving

Record: Y: 2013/4

Polar bear, blue and green marbled serpentine, on a raw stone base, by Lucassie Echalook

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Arctic crane with egg

Record: Y: 2013/7

Musk ox horn and whale bone carving of a bird with egg

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Carving

Record: Y: 2014/1/11

Three narwhals on base, in applejack jadeite, Cape Dorset 1981

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Carving

Record: Y: 2014/1/2

relic whalebone vertebrae, carved with faces front and back, Cape Dorset.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2014/1/21

Hunter and Seal.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2014/1/23a-c

Hunter and Bear (carved into base), in dark grey serpentine/metabasics. Signed in Roman. Gjoa Haven, c. 1975. Good condition.

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Igloo, model

Record: Y: 2014/1/25

Igloo, opens to two halves on wooden pegs revealing scene of husband, wife, utensils (kudlik), seal and dog. In buffed grey green serpentine. Signed in Roman, Coppermine 1976. Good condition with glued repairs to figures and kudlik.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2014/1/26a-c

Caribou, polished dark grey serpentine resinated to base. Signed in Roman, Gjoa Haven 1975. Good condition, minor repairs to caribou horns

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Carving

Record: Y: 2014/1/27

Husband and wife on sled (kamiq) pulled by dogs carved witihn base all of mid green steatite/jadeite. Signed in syllabics, Gjoa Haven c. 1975.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2014/1/28

Loon in dark green serpentine by Ningeosiak Ashoona, Cape Dorset 2009

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Carving

Record: Y: 2014/1/30a-b

Bird (flying) in green/black steatite (broken off stand)

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Carving

Record: Y: 2014/1/31

Face/Mask. Mottled dark green serpentine. Signed in Roman, Gjoa Haven 1976.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2014/1/32

Musk Ox (rampant), speckled green steatite. Signed in syllabics. Cape Dorset 1997.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2014/1/33

Eagle in polished caribou horn, Pangnirtung - Nunavut, Baffin Island, 2003. The invoice is annotated with: 'demonstrating move from ivory to horn: mimic-ivory carving.'

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Kayak, model

Record: Y: 2014/1/3a-c

Model kayak, caribou antler, with kayaker and paddle.

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Inukshuk

Record: Y: 2014/1/4

Inukshuk, grey purple metabasic stone, from Rankin Inlet RT Canada, 1999. (2509)

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Kayak, model

Record: Y: 2014/1/5

Kayak with figure, grey metabasic stone(?), Arctic bay Feb 86, with paddle.

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Carving

Record: Y: 2014/1/6

Inukshuk carving, made of polished stones

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Casting a Spell

Record: Y: 2018/5

A colour stencil print, edition 48 of 50, entitled 'Casting a Spell' and printed by Ida Aivek from an original drawing by Helen Kalvak depicting an Inuk man with a snow knife moving towards the right while a shaman figure with animal features casts a spell towards him from behind. A harpoon lies on the ground between the figures adjacent to what may be an ice hole or another abandoned implement. Purchased by the giver in Ulukhaktok (formerly Holman), Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, between 1980 and 1982.

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Look at me, look at you

Record: Y: 2020/1

Transformation mask carved from Western red cedar wood and baleen, combining the features of a bowhead whale and a human face. Hand carved by Othniel Art Oomittuk Junior, 2012.

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Carving

Record: Z: 194

Carving. Inuit? No provenance, no date.

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Carving

Record: Z: 267a-b

Carving, Seal, soapstone on base (see Notes)

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Carving

Record: Z: 313a-c

Carving, Muskox, soapstone. Artist: Simeonie (Simon) Akpaleeapik. Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, no date.