Artist Kingmeata Etidlooie
Title Untitled - High Bird
Media green stone carving
Size 9.5 x 4.75 x 4.5 in. / 24.1 x 12.1 x 11.4 cm.
Sold $85
Estimate $200 - $400
Notes
unsigned; inscribed '5N' on bottom
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.
Biographical Information
Kingmeata Etidlooie ~ [1915-1989] Inuit
see Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.1, by Canadian Arctic Producers for biography and Inuit Artist Index, by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pg.50; listed on www.katilvik.com disc # E7-895; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website