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Copper plate engraving on rectangular off-white paper, in horizontal orientation; engraving set into paper, with raised rectangular border. Central design of an owl with outspread wings; outlined with hatch lines. Owl has small circular eyes and a V-shaped beak; body and legs decorated with spots, with faint lines throughout. Wings are covered with rows of hatch lines; entire design done in black ink. Small inscription in top right corner, with price of drawing ($50). Syllabics, edition number, 44/50, year made, and additional syllabics written along bottom edge of engraving; Canadian Eskimo Arts Council logo embossed in bottom right corner. All inscriptions written in pencil.
Ink and pencil crayon drawing on off-white rectangular paper, in portrait orientation; design done on upper half of page, leaving bottom of paper blank. Design consists of two musk oxen, facing away from one another, on a coloured patch of ground. Oxen have yellow horns, and black fur with brown-red highlights throughout; area around eyes, nostrils, and hooves are uncoloured. Ground is a thin, irregularly-shaped oval with small rocks and pebbles scattered throughout; done in light yellow and black. Brown-red, semi-circular hill in the background, with large black rocks scattered and stacked across it. Syllabics signature in bottom right corner of design, overtop coloured ground; number pencil inscriptions along bottom edge, and small white sticker with artist name, on back of drawing.
Set of 6 matching miniature birch-bark chairs (parts a-f), another chair with a slightly different shape and pattern (part g) and a birch-bark corner shelf (part h); all decorated with floral designs in dyed quillwork. Parts a-f and h have similar floral designs on the chair backs and seats, in white, pink, yellow and green quillwork, with a simple cross pattern on the lower sides. The other chair, part g, has much finer floral patterns on five surfaces, embroidered using dyed grasses(?).
Ink and pencil crayon drawing with a pencil border along all edges; done on off-white rectangular paper, in horizontal orientation. Design consists of a grandmother's hand, extending from the top right corner, holding an ulu; done in dark brown. Behind the ulu is a large lollipop, with the stick pointed towards the bottom right corner of the drawing; candy has groupings of blue, yellow, green, and red stripes throughout. West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative logo embossed in bottom right corner, within pencil border. Title(?) and signature(?) written along bottom edge of drawing, outside of border, in dark brown ink. Number inscriptions and measurements written in pencil, along bottom edge on back.
Fan of white and some purple-blue downy feathers, and a birch bark handle with quillwork. The front has attached a small black and orange-yellow bird with its body oriented downwards, and head turned to its left. The back has 11 white feathers extending out of the handle, the tops of which have been rounded with downy feathers extending beyond them. There is quillwork on both sides of the birch bark handle. On the front, there is a seated person in profile with a pipe held to their mouth next to a small tree surrounded by a foliage frame with a flower at the top and bottom. Below, a bird in profile stands within some foliage. The quillwork on the back of the handle depicts another person in profile with a pipe(?) held to their mouth, situated between two different plants and also framed by foliage and a flower at the top and bottom. Below appears to be a red plant.
Folding tulip-shaped fabric vase with square base. Opposing sides feature similar beadwork. Two sides have five-petaled flowers, with each petal a different colour - yellow, white, blue, clear and dark blue, with a larger white bead at centre, and green foliage. The other two sides have two flowers, shown in profile, with yellow and white petals, and connected by dark green foliage. The designs are framed on each side by light green tube beads that follow the shape of the vase. The opening is beaded with small loops of green with a clear bead on each loop. Handwritten along interior top edge is 'R DELARONDE'. The interior is lined with off-white fabric. The base is plain.
Large, kidney-shaped, hand-woven basket; cedar slat construction, wrapped with cedar root. Decorated with alternating stripes of imbrication in black and red cherry bark, and pale yellow grass. Small half-circle handles attached near top edge at each end. Fourteen vertical stripes around all sides of basket; each set consists of 2 bark, 2 grass, 3 bark, 2 grass, 2 bark. Sets alternate between black bark and grass, and red bark and grass. Remains of secondary handles at both corners of the indented side (small root remains in four holes at one end; holes are empty at other end.) Old repair runs along the top edge on the outer side.
'Ksan Doors: four large cedar panels that join in pairs. Panels (a-b) are wide, and panels (c-d) are narrow. Each panel is covered with carved figures and designs on both front and back, with an uncarved border around the edges. Panels (a-b) have representations of Wolf, Frog, and Fireweed clans on the front, and the Sun (clockwise from top), the Son of the Sun, the Grandmother, Skawah on the back of her husband, raven and bear on the back. The side panels (c-d) also have representations of Wolf, Frog and Fireweed on the front, and black bear, hawk and beaver on one, and Whale, Fireweed, Wolf and Frog on the other.
Pencil and crayon drawing of two Inuit pairs, the women wearing amautis and the men in parkas. The two figures on the left side are wearing brown clothing while the two figures on the right side slightly above are wearing black clothing. All figures are walking left. Hair, parkas, pants, and mittens have been coloured in with crayon. Syllabics In pencil, in the lower left corner. The drawing is on vertically rectangular, cream-coloured paper which has been torn from a large spiral notebook.
Argillite figurative carving of Wasco, bear and a human; attached to small rectangular base. Wasco and bear are upright, back to back; bear is holding a human, upside-down, by the waist. Wasco has their head tilted back, and mouth open. Formline design elements on ears and fins; cross-hatching throughout negative space. Bear has incised lines across body, imitating fur; face is smooth. Human has their eyes and mouth closed, textured hair, and highlighted fingers and toes. Base is undecorated.