Winter and Summer Hunt/Ukiomilo Aoyamilo Angoniaktut
About this object
Narrative
The set was originally purchased by a previous owner in Toronto. In Feb. 2024 the donors purchased the set from the previous owner, in a silent auction benefit.
Iconographic meaning
The caribou skulls depicted in the print, killed during the hunting season, are gathered in an orderly fashion as a sign of respect for the spirit of the animal.
Physical description
Lithograph print of a winter seal hunt on the left and a summer caribou hunt on the right; done in horizontal orientation on off-white paper. Winter scene inside an irregular-shape, coloured teal. There are five hunters inside, all wearing long tailed parkas and holding harpoons with detachable heads. A small igloo is along the bottom edge of the shape, with a white seal next to it. Knives and mittens throughout design. The summer scene has a blue body of water with two kayakers and a caribou in it; the caribou has been shot with an arrow. A hunter stands to side of water with a cable-backed bow and an arrow. All figures are wearing white hooded parkas. Small skin tent in bottom right corner, next to two large columns of caribou skulls. Artist signature in bottom right corner, in between tent and skulls. Title, Winter and Summer Hunt/Ukiomilo Aoyamilo Angoniaktut, edition number, 14/55, and artist and printer names, Emerak/P. Palvik, written in pencil along bottom edge of printer. Holman Eskimo Co-Operative stamp blind embossed in bottom right corner; Arches France, paper manufacturer, stamp embossed in bottom left corner (only visible on back of print).
Categories
Date Made
1987
Date Acquired
15 Apr 2024
How Acquired
Donated
Measurements
Overall: 50.5 cm x 66.4 cm
Object Number
3662/1 p