Artist William [Bill] Ekomiak
Title Bird and Nest [Snow Owl]
Media bone and feather carving
Dated 1979
Size 2.5 x 2.75 x 2.25 in. / 6.4 x 7 x 5.7 cm.
Sold $200 Estimate $100 - $150

Notes
signed, dated and inscribed 'E9-630' on bottom; bears title on label included with lot

Provenance
The Yacowar-Petrie collection, 50 years in the making, comes from two longtime Calgarians now retired in Victoria, B.C. Anne Petrie was the award-winning CBC TV journalist [Petrie on Prime, etc.] and author [Gone to an Aunt’s]. English/Film Studies Professor Maurice Yacowar had a double stint at the University of Calgary, as the founding [and the first fired] editor of the student paper, The Gauntlet, then as Dean of Fine Arts.