The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection. Collected: Elizabeth Cole Butler

Cribbage game board. Object is carved in the shape of a fish, balancing on four peg legs, with a wide head and rounded snout, eyes set far apart on top of head. Down the back of the creature are bored four lines of small, evenly placed holes and among these are etched images of animals such as seals, walrus, fish, whales, and people fishing and driving a dog sled. The etchings have been darkened, with an ink or pigment, for visibility.

Kananginak, son of Eegyvudluk Pootoogook, made this print from a drawing by his father. The subject alludes to Inuit knowledge of the interconnected workings of their environment. This print was included in the first graphics collection produced by Cape Dorset Graphics of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, an organization created to promote Inuit art. An exhibition of the first thirty-nine prints toured Canada and the United States to great critical acclaim in 1959, leading to a continuation of the printmaking program, which is still active today.

Signed, "Nivisksiak" and his seal

Signed, "Mungituk" and his seal

Signed, "Lutak" and his seal

Carving of a bird with outspread wings in the act of taking off. Legs are attached to a thin rectangular base. Black inset eyes (one is missing). On the bottom of the base is written in ink "Nowya".

Carving of the torso of a man in the act of throwing a harpoon, but attached to a rectangular tusk stand. There is a harpoon in the man's hand. Man's facial features are drawn on by pen.

Crochet hook made of tusk with an upraised ring around the middle of the hook and a seal's head at the proximal end. The seal head has black inset eyes and nostrils and its mouth is incised and darkened with ink.

A stone base carved to represent an ice floe with four walrus carvings - one juvenile and three adults with tusks. One walrus is attached to the floe base (part a) while three are detached (parts b-d). Each detached walrus has a peg in the bottom to set it into a hole on the base. Whiskers and facial features are drawn on by pen. Stone base has semi-circular notches cut out of each side and a decorative incised border.