Lot 12
Davidialuk Alasua Amittu ᑎᕕᑎᐊᓗ (1910-1976)
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Provenance:
Walker's Auctioneers, Ottawa, ON, 7 Dec 2021, Lot 4
Private Collection, Toronto, ON
Note:
Davidialuk was a passionate storyteller, and has been justly celebrated for his many depictions of Inuit myths and folk tales in his sculptures and prints. The present work tells the story of The Drowning of Alikammiq.
In one version of the story, Alikammiq was out hunting in his kayak, which in the course of the tale, overturns and sinks. Alikammiq drowns, but after three days comes back to life and is found alive walking in the village, where he is renamed Anaqraniq (The one who came home).[1]
[1] Zebedee Nungak and Eugene Arima, Eskimo Stories: Unikkaatuat (Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1969), 54, 55.