Description
#20219
Inuit Art: Face/ Seal
Artist: Putuguk Ashevak
Size: 8 1/2” long, 5 1/4″ high, 4” wide
Community: Taloyoak year: 1999 Stone: Serpentine
ᐃᓄᐃᑦ The people _ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Inuktitut
The arts are a vital element of Inuit culture and traditions.
Cape Dorset in Nunavut is known as the “Capital of Inuit Art” and 1 out of 5 workers here are employed in the arts.
For decades, Inuit art has played an integral role in the northern economy and contributed millions of dollars to the regional economy.
Seal very much happen to be the daily bread of Arctic dwellers.” Traditionally, seal hunting provided skins to make the clothing the Inuit needed to keep warm, the blubber they needed to heat their homes and to cook and the meat they needed to sustain life.
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