Artist Nuyalia Tunnillie
Title Untitled - Drummer
Media stone, bone and wood carving
Size 4.25 x 8.5 x 5 in. / 10.8 x 21.6 x 12.7 cm.
Sold $160
Estimate $200 - $250
Notes
signed 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
Nuyalia Tunnillie ~ [20th Century] Inuit