Figure Item Number: 3540/2 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Stoneware figure of a reclining walrus, supported by its foreflippers. Figure has large incised eyes, deep oval-shaped nostrils, an open mouth and two white tusks; tusks connect with belly of walrus. Small dots punctured across snout. Foreflippers have four semi-circles indented along the bottom edge, highlighting digits. Wide lines incised around neck. Hind flippers are curved to left of body. Figure is hollow and base is unglazed; rest of body is dark brown with brown-red highlights throughout. 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.