Artist Tania Qumuluk
Title Untitled - Man Kissing Walrus
Media grey stone carving
Size 8 x 8 x 4 in. / 20.3 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm.
Sold $110
Estimate $150 - $250
Notes
signed with disc number 'E9-1396' on bottom; some handling marks noted
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
Tania Qumuluk ~ [1919-1983] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-1396, community Povungnituk / Puvirnituq