Drawing Item Number: 2978/106 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Grey pencil drawing on horizontal rectangular sheet of ivory paper of a family standing outside their snow house. The man is on the left. He is holding a bow in both hands and to the left of his feet are three arrows. To his right is a spear. Next to the spear stands a boy holding a bow upright in one hand. There are three arrows to the right. Next to the boy is a woman wearing an amautiq with a baby in the pouch. She has a mitten on her left hand. This hand holds the mitten which would go on her outstretched right hand. To the right is a caribou skin stretched out.