Artist Johnny Inukpuk
Title Untitled - Mother with Baby Chewing Mukluk
Media black stone carving
Size 9.75 x 2.5 x 5 in. / 24.8 x 6.4 x 12.7 cm.
Sold $75 Estimate $200 - $400

Notes
signed with syllabics and inscribed 'C-No-5-89 29846' on bottom

Reference
according to the consignor, 'For Johnny his wife's cleft palate was beautiful so he gave it to most of his carved women.'

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.