Figure Item Number: 3540/5 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Stoneware figure of a standing bird. Face consists of incised eyes and smooth beak. Bird has its wings held against sides, flaring slightly backward at tips; short tail extends from back. Figure is hollow with an open base. Base is unglazed; rest of bird is gold-beige with dark red highlights. Unsigned.
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.