Artist E. Tokto
Title Untitled - Speedy Walrus
Media green stone and bone carving
Size 2 x 11 x 4 in. / 5.1 x 27.9 x 10.2 cm.
Sold $50
Estimate $250 - $350
Notes
signed and inscribed on bottom
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.
Biographical Information
E. Tokto ~ [20th century] Inuit