Whaler's Exchange

Item number 1466/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Print depicting three figures: an Inuit man holding an object in his hands, an Inuit woman with a child that appears to be Caucasian in her parka, and a Caucasian man. Below the print is written, "Whaler's Exchange Lithograph 8/50 Dorset 1989 Napachie" with the artist's name written in Inuit syllabics below the Roman letter version. The printmaker's name is printed with the Cape Dorset stylized red igloo seal at the left-hand corner. The Canadian Eskimo Arts Council and Cape Dorset Cooperative blind embossed stamps are in the bottom right-hand corner.