Artist Judas Ullulaq
Title Untitled - Dancing Shaman
Media black stone carving
Size 7 x 5 x 3.25 in. / 17.8 x 12.7 x 8.3 cm.
Sold $1,100
Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
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
Judas Ullulaq ~ [1937-1999] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E4-342, community Gjoa Haven; see Judas Ooloolah [Ullulaq], Canadian Arctic Producers, 1983; Sculpture of the Inuit, by G.Swinton, pg.253 and 268, McClelland and Stewart, 1992; biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers