Artist Inuit School
Title Untitled - Oosik Scrimshaw of Inuit Life
Media bone
Size 2 x 18.25 x 1.5 in. / 5.1 x 46.4 x 3.8 cm.
Estimate $300 - $500

Notes
unsigned

Reference
according to the consignor, 'ex-collection Joseph Bergasse, Director Industry, Trade and Commerce, Yellowknife. The sexual association of the object imbues the depicted community’s life with the ideas of fertility and regeneration.'

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.