Inuit Art Online Auction

October 10, 2013

LOT 151

Lot 151

KANANGINAK POOTOOGOOK (1935-2010)

KANANGINAK POOTOOGOOK (1935-2010)
Lot 151 Details
KANANGINAK POOTOOGOOK (1935-2010), E7-1168, Cape Dorset

NASIQNIATUQ (SEAL HUNTING)

stonecut and stencil
1978, 35/50
16" x 22.5" — 40.6 x 57.2 cm.

Estimate $600-$900

Realised: $1,020
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Note:

“‘I don’t really want to go back to the old days. But when you think of the old days, it makes you proud - just to think of them. In the old days, the men used to hunt seals on top of the snow like this [Nasiqniatuq, No. 37]. When a man was hunting a seal on the ice, he would try very hard not to make a noise so that he would have a chance to get the seal. That hole between the hunter’s legs is the seal’s breathing hole. Birds always try to stay around when they know a man is hunting. They know that a human man will get something to eat. They always wait to get fed.”

-Kanaginak Pootoogook, as quoted in the Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection 1978, MF Feheley Publishers, 1978, p. 46, pl. 37

CONDITION DETAILS

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