Figure Item Number: 3540/7 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Stoneware figure of a small upright seal. Face consists of incised circular eyes and a circular open mouth. Small foreflippers are wrapped around front of body; lines incised along bottom edges, imitating digits. Semi-circles incised along front bottom edge of figure, imitating hind flippers. Figure is hollow with an open base. Base is unglazed; rest of seal is white with grey-green and dark brown undertones. 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.