Artist Eugenie Tautoonie Kabluitok
Title Untitled - Louse Necklace
Media stone and glass bead necklace
Size 1.25 x 3.25 x 2 in. / 3.2 x 8.3 x 5.1 cm.
Sold $49 Estimate $50 - $100

Notes
unsigned; necklace hangs 16 inches

Reference
according to the consignor, 'Cheekily, a louse is hung on milady’s beaded string for a necklace. Shades of the famous Robert Burns poem about a lady’s embarrassment by a louse?'

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.