Artist Simeonie Quppapik
Title Untitled - Bird Transformation
Media green stone carving
Size 3 x 8 x 3 in. / 7.6 x 20.3 x 7.6 cm.
Sold $90
Estimate $300 - $500
Notes
signed with syllabics 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
Simeonie Quppapik ~ [1909-1974] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-868, community Cape Dorset / Kinngait