Description
#AA38
Inuit Art: Woman
Artist: Alex Alikashuk
Size: 11.75” high, 3.25” long
Community: Whale Cove year: 1999 Stone: Serpentine
_arnaq ᐊᕐᓇᖅ – Inuit men and women needed each other to survive. Married couples had to work together to overcome nearly impossible living conditions. Because every individual had to rely on a partner to survive, marriages were often arranged at birth to ensure the survival of the family. Love marriages, or choice marriages, existed, but these were all but arranged because there were usually few eligible partners. A young woman was eligible for marriage after puberty, but a man had to prove he was efficient enough in hunting to support a family before he could marry.[8]
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