Artist Abraham [Ruben] Apakark Anghik
Title Untitled - Embossed Bird
Media green stone carving
Size 7 x 8.5 x 5.5 in. / 17.8 x 21.6 x 14 cm.
Estimate $500 - $700

Notes
signed and dated on bottom of bird; handling marks noted

Provenance
The Yacowar-Petrie collection, 50 years in the making, comes from two longtime Calgarians now retired in Victoria, B.C. Anne Petrie was the award-winning CBC TV journalist [Petrie on Prime, etc.] and author [Gone to an Aunt’s]. English/Film Studies Professor Maurice Yacowar had a double stint at the University of Calgary, as the founding [and the first fired] editor of the student paper, The Gauntlet, then as Dean of Fine Arts.