Artist Daniel Quma Angiju
Title Untitled - Seal Bites Hunter
Media black stone carving
Size 7.75 x 3.5 x 4 in. / 19.7 x 8.9 x 10.2 cm.
Estimate $300 - $400

Notes
signed with disc number 'E9-952' on bottom; some handling marks noted

Reference
according to the consignor, 'The front view is a man in apparent anguish. The rear explains. Another Inuk caught by his catch.'

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.