Favorable Husband Item Number: 3495/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Serigraph print of a husband and wife. The woman is seated on a raised platform inside a dark blue structure. She is wearing a blue and white striped dress with a red border along the bottom edge. Her child is on her back, held in place with a red and blue cloth. One of her arms is held out, offering a black bucket to her husband. The man is standing in the entryway of the structure. He is wearing a blue and white striped shirt, red pants and red boots. His left hand is reaching for the bucket, his right is holding a ladle(?). In the background, above the couple, is a small figure wearing a black shirt and red pants. He is bent over, balanced on one foot, and reaching towards the woman. In the bottom right corner of the print the title, signature, edition number and date made are written in pencil. Signatures, in syllabics, with Baker Lake symbol stamped next to pencil inscription. Canadian Eskimo Arts Council blind-embossed stamp in bottom right corner. (Print is taped to board backing.)
The carvings in this donation (3495/1-9) were mostly collected by Kathi McKay, who was a teacher on Baffin Island in the 1970s. She later lived in Yellowknife.