Artist Kaka Ashoona
Title Untitled - Bust with Headdress
Media black and green stone carving
Size 12.5 x 9.75 x 6 in. / 31.8 x 24.8 x 15.2 cm.
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
Notes
signed and inscribed with syllabics on bottom
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Kaka Ashoona ~ [b.1928] Inuit
see Biographies of Inuit Artists, by the Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984; other examples in Sculpture / Inuit, by the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, pg.304, University of Toronto Press, 1971; Sculpture of the Inuit, by G.Swinton, pg.32, McClelland and Stewart, 1992; The First Passionate Collector, by D.Wight, pg.53, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1990
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1101, community Cape Dorset / Kinngait