Three Quvavaq Figures Eating Humans

About this object

Narrative

Balshine family collection.

Physical description

Figures holding one another from left to right: a dark green one-headed figure with four arms, two feet, and a tail that has a hand at its end; a light green two-headed figure with two heads on its back, three arms, two feet, and a tail that has a hand at its end; a human wearing brown, light yellow, and black clothing; a dark green two-headed figure with two heads on its back, four arms, two feet, and a tail that has a hand at its end; another human; and a light green one-headed figure with a head on its back, four arms, and two feet bending over. Below, there is an igloo on the left side and a pile of rocks with a knife and antlers surrounded by three grey-black and one brown dog on the right side. In pencil, in the lower right corner, are syllabics. The drawing is on horizontally rectangular white paper.