Hunter with Avataq
36 cms x 19 cms x 17.15 cms (14.25 ins x 7.5 ins x 14.25 ins)
Signed in syllabics and with disc no.
Lot offered for sale by Walker's, Ottawa at the auction event "Inuit & First Nations Art Auction of November 22, 2017" held on Wed, Nov 22, 2017.
Lot 192
Lot 192
Estimate: CAD $1,500 - $2,500
Realised: CAD $1,888
Realised: CAD $1,888
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Abraham Nastapoka (1900-1981)
Inukjuak (Port Harrison), Hunter with Avataq, c. 1960, stone, signed in syllabics and with disc no., 14.25 x 7.5 x 6.75 in, 36 x 19 x 17 cm
Provenance: Pruzansky Collection; Waddington's Nov. 2008
References: for a work in a quite similar style by Nastapoka see Darlene Wight, The Jerry Twomey Collection (2003) p. 29, and Jean Blodgett (1977) fig. 51; for other works see Darlene Wight, Early Masters (WAG 2006), pp. 74-76.
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