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$132.25 Vintage Lucassie Qumaluk Inuit Art Soapstone Walrus Carving in Vancouver, British Columbia for sale

$132.25
Vintage Lucassie Qumaluk Inuit Art Soapstone
$132.25
Vintage Lucassie Qumaluk Inuit Art Soapstone
$13,225

Handsome Inuit Soapstone Carving Walrus by Lucassie Qumaluk Here is a very nice vintage walrus carving by Inuit artist Lucassie Qumaluk of Puvirnituq. Posed with head erect, wide eyes and handsome long tusks. Dark stone with attractive veining throughout. Dimensions: 4.25” l x 3.75" h x 1.75”w Very good to terrific condition Artist name inscribed in Inuktitut syllabics on underside, with year (’77) and © About the Artist 1st Name: Lucassie Last Name: Qumaluk Community: Puvirnituq Sex: M Date born: 1935 Alternative Names: • Qumaluk Qumaluk • Lucassie Qumaluk Exhibits: • Povungnituk Print Collection *75 (annual collection) • Not Just a Dancing Step... Galerie D'Art Vincent Bibliography: • Mendel Art Carousel ANNUAL REPORT New Acquisitions PERIODICALS Notice of ten works by Parr, newly acquired by the Mendel Art Carousel in Saskatoon. About the Community Puvirnituq (Inuktitut: ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᖅ) is a northern village in Nunavik on the Povungnituk River near its mouth on the Hudson Bay near the far northern tip of Quebec. It rests at 60 degrees latitude north. Approx 1700 people live there today. The unusual name means "Place where there is a smell of rotten meat". This name may have originated from an epidemic killing off most of the area's residents or a natural disaster where a large herd of caribou was swept away by the Povungnituk River while attempting to cross it and the bodies washed ashore . In 1921, the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post here, known as Povungnituk and often shortened to Pov. This attracted the settlement of Inuit living in the region to this community. In 1951, the Hudson Bay Company opened a general store. The closure of Hudson Bay Company stores in other nearby villages led to an influx of Inuit to Puvirnituq. A Catholic mission was founded there in 1956. The mission encouraged the residents to form the Carvers Association of Povungnituk 2 years later. This later became the Co-operative Association of Povungnituk and was instrumental in assisting, developing, and marketing Inuit art. Its success inspired other Inuit communities to form similar cooperatives, most of which now make up the Federation of Cooperatives of Northern Quebec. Today, Puvirnituq is the aviation hub of the Hudson Bay coast. Puvirnituq Airport handles scheduled flights to and from all other Hudson Bay coastal communities in Quebec, Montreal, and Ottawa. It is not accessible by road.


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