Artist Barnabus Arnasungaaq
Title Muskox [and Bear]
Media stone and bone carvings
Size 1.75 x 2.75 x 1 in. / 4.4 x 7 x 2.5 cm.
Sold $100 Estimate $300 - $400

Notes
both unsigned; muskox is by Barnabus Arnasungaaq [according to consignor] and measures [1.75 x 2.75 x 1 in.]; white bear is by unknown Inuit artist and measures [0.75 x 1 x 0.25 in.]

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.