Artist Simata Pitsiulak
Title Untitled - Three Birds
Media green stone carving
Size 5 x 5.5 x 4 in. / 12.7 x 14 x 10.2 cm.
Sold $70
Estimate $150 - $200
Notes
signed and inscribed 'E7-1434' 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
Simata Pitsiulak ~ [b.1956] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1434, community Lake Harbour / Kimmirut