Small container carved from tusk. Container is an elongated hexagon, tall, with a crenellated rim. Interior narrows toward bottom, following the line of the tusk’s pulp cavity. The front is engraved with an igloo below Inuktitut syllabics, while on the back is a stone lamp(?), also with syllabics. Both images are emphasized with black, while syllabics are in-painted with red. A channel is carved around the exterior at the bottom, to create the illusion of a base.

Small stone sculpture of mother and baby. Woman is seated with one leg bent beneath her, the other stretched in front. She wears a large parka with hood draped around her neck and shoulders. In her arms she holds a nursing child, its legs extended over her bent leg. The mother’s facial features and ears are defined, as are her hands which are placed on the child’s back.

Walrus-shaped, almost flat but slightly concave piece of hollowed tusk. Overall the piece takes the outline of a walrus head with wide open mouth and protruding tusk, narrowing toward the rounded opposite end. Interior is concave and undecorated. Exterior is etched with a scene in which a sled pulled by 5 trotting dogs carries two people along with their packages. An igloo stands in the background to the right. The walrus’s whisker follicles and eye are also etched in. The etchings are filled with a dark paint or ink substance to make them more visible.

Carving of a man and dog, on a stand (part a). Male figure (part b) is carved of tusk and stands with arms stretched in front of him. He wears a parka and leggings decorated with black paint around hem, hood, and wrists. Boots and mittens are also black. Facing him is a large dog (part c), white but for its black nose, eyes, mouth and claws. Dog has a thick tail that curves to rest on his back. Both figures have two wooden pegs in their feet that connect them to holes in the stand, which is a long rectangle of smoothed brown stone.

Carved stone seal. Stylized creature lays on its belly on a small attached platform carved tight to the animal’s shape. Body is tubular, slightly smaller at back. Fore flippers are held close to sides, with hind flippers undefined. Eyes are large and round with a circle of light brown at the edge. Nostrils are flared and mouth is partially open.

Carved basalt fish with stand. Long, sleek char-like fish is carved with particular attention to fins, including protruding dorsal and adipose at top, caudal at back, and anal, pelvic and pectoral at bottom. All are carved with delicate horizontal lines. Gills are shown just behind the face. Fish is attached to a thick rectangular base of the same stone by two short wooden posts.

Carved black stone walrus. Animal lays on belly, with front flippers supporting the raised head and neck. Face is turned to the side and has carved neck wrinkles, as well as eyes, nostrils, mouth and whisker follicles on the face. Two ivory tusks emerge from the mouth (one of which is removable--part ‘b’). Into the animal’s back is carved a shallow ashtray with four half circle hollows around the edge.

Whale bone figure. A woman stands on a small, irregularly shaped platform, wearing a parka that gathers at the waist and falls to the knees, slightly longer on the back hem. The hood is up over her head and her round face has carved nose, eyes and mouth in a downcast expression. Arms are held down and slightly away from her sides. The edge of the parka at hood, wrists, and bottom hem have an encircling, incised line for decoration.

Print, with accompanying booklet (part b). Print is monochromatic, black ink on white paper, showing elements from the lives of Inuit people. The small drawings include boats, kayaks, animals, birds, fish, whales, igloos, houses, tools and weapons. The soft-cover booklet explains each of the elements pictured in the print, in English, and includes names in Inuktitut.

Soapstone figure of an owl. Bird stands with large clawed feet forward, wings tucked at sides with long carved feathers meeting tail. Small head is rounded with a narrow beak. Eyes are round rings of off-white material inset into the stone, with round stone pupils inside the white. Across wings, back, tail and chest are small, densely carved feathers.