Artist Mark Tungilik
Title Untitled - Pointing Bird
Media bone and stone carving
Size 2.25 x 3.5 x 1.5 in. / 5.7 x 8.9 x 3.8 cm.
Sold $43
Estimate $75 - $100
Notes
signed with syllabics on bottom
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
Mark Tungilik ~ [1913-1986] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E3-320, community Repulse Bay / Naujaat; listed on www.artprice.com