Welcome to my Inuit art collection.

This blog has lacked activity, but I will try to add a posting every day to give you some idea of my Inuit collection.
I thought that in the next few postings, I will try to give you an idea of the different kinds of Inuit art that I do have. Later on I will try to expand on the different categories.
Here is one sculpture out of my bear collection. I consider him (her?) the harbinger of the times to come.
The story around this carving (done in alabaster/marble) is that the carvers were caught by the early arrival of summer and consequently had no transportation access to their preferred quarry of soapstone. Thus they had to do with the closer by marble deposit (a much harder stone to work with) So, in a sense, this bear is another sign of global warming. Who knows what the climate change will have in store for the actual mighty polar bear.
The carver, Mayoreak Ashoona, is from Cape Dorset. She is a well known carver and print maker.
The carving is 19 by 8.5 by 6 inches.