Artist Wayne Puqiqnak
Title Untitled - Walrus Drummer
Media grey stone and bone carving
Size 8.5 x 6.5 x 5.75 in. / 21.6 x 16.5 x 14.6 cm.
Sold $400
Estimate $300 - $500
Notes
signed and inscribed 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
Wayne Puqiqnak ~ [b.1975] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, community Gjoa Haven