Artist Inuit School
Title Untitled - Bear Eating Seal
Media green stone carving
Size 3.5 x 8.5 x 3.5 in. / 8.9 x 21.6 x 8.9 cm.
Sold $50 Estimate $150 - $250

Notes
inscribed '406423087' on bottom; some handling marks noted

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.