Artist Davidialuk Alasua Amittu
Title Untitled - Fisherman Caught in Net
Media grey stone carving
Size 6.5 x 4.5 x 5.5 in. / 16.5 x 11.4 x 14 cm.
Sold $400 Estimate $300 - $500

Notes
signed on bottom; some handling marks and cracks on head noted

Reference
according to the consignor, 'Humorously, Davidialuk often depicted a fisherman caught in his own net. That’s the Inuit 'hoist with his own petard''

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.