Lot 227
SHEOKJUK OQUTAQ (1920-1982)

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Provenance:
Collection of Terry Ryan
Note:
“I try to carve them (loons) very fine, I only use a saw to carve, I never use an axe like a lot of people do…I have built houses and made boats. Making a carving is harder work than making a house or making a boat.”
Interview by Marion Jackson, Cape Dorset, January, 1979
Illustrated in: Inuit Art in the 1970’s, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1979, page 51, plate 26
Dated 1975