Figure Item Number: 3540/6 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Stoneware figure of a seal, lying on its stomach. Face consists of protruding circular eyes, snout with imprinted dots throughout, and an open frowning mouth; snout and eyes are painted black. Small foreflippers held against sides of rotund body, large hind flippers extend straight out from back; lines incised along edges of all, imitating digits. Rounded, cone-shaped tail protrudes from between hind flippers. Figure is hollow and base is unglazed; rest of seal is grey-blue with black speckles and highlights throughout. Artist initials incised on base; four holes poked into base above signature.
Figure was made while Makituk was a student at the Kootenay School of Art in Nelson, BC in the late 1960s; she was studying with Walter Dexter. It was acquired directly from the artist by the donor's family, who moved to Nelson in 1968.