Artist Lucy Arnapak Aiyarani
Title Untitled - People Thinking about Food
Media black stone and bone carving
Size 5 x 3.5 x 2.5 in. / 12.7 x 8.9 x 6.4 cm.
Sold $47
Estimate $50 - $75
Notes
unsigned
Reference
artist's name from consignor
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
Lucy Arnapak Aiyarani ~ [b.1921] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E3-11, community Eskimo Point / Arviat