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Artist Aisa Tuluga
Title Untitled - The Defecator I
Media black stone carving
Size 6 x 7 x 6 in. / 15.2 x 17.8 x 15.2 cm.
Sold $95 Estimate $200 - $400

Notes
signed on bottom; handling marks noted

Reference
according to the consignor, 'In this double exposure this figure flashes prominent genitalia as well as excrement.'

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
Aisa Tuluga ~ [1899-1970] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-853, community Povungnituk

Historical Results for this Artist

Sold
CAD $95 - Paddle # 9089
Bidding History
Paddle #
Date
Amount
9089
3/8/2025 2:18:37 PM
CAD $95
7749
3/8/2025 2:18:37 PM
CAD $90
9089
3/8/2025 11:04:04 AM
CAD $85
7749
3/8/2025 10:30:27 AM
CAD $80
103158
3/7/2025 11:50:42 PM
CAD $75

Biographical Information
Aisa Tuluga ~ [1899-1970] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-853, community Povungnituk

Historical Results for this Artist

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