Drawing

About this object

History of use

The Inuit prints consist of stencils, stonecut engravings and lithographs from the communities of Cape Dorset, Baker Lake, Povunenituk, Holman Island, Pangnirtung, and Clyde River. The first Cape Dorset prints were in 1959, Povunenituk in 1962, Holman in 1965, Baker Lake in 1970, Pangnirtung in 1973, and Clyde River in 1981. Since the late 1940's Indian and Northern Affairs have supported the development of art from the Canadian Arctic in co-operation with the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council. Catalogues have been published since 1959 and most of the prints are documented in their year of production.

Cultural context

contemporary art

Physical description

Drawing with ten musk oxen, fourteen human figures, and fish mostly in blue ink with pencil crayon. The border is blue, red, green, and gray. There is a figure with an ulu in the lower right corner. In the lower right corner, there is the artist's signature in Inuit syllabics. The drawing is on horizontally rectangular, white paper.