Lot 57
SAIMA QAUNNAALUK LUUKU (1930-)
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Provenance:
The Balt collection, CA
Between the years of 1964 to 1977 the Balts worked as a nurse and a teacher/Federal Government representative in Ivuyivik, Great Whale River and Rankin Inlet. They acquired carvings directly from the artists.
Note:
“There was a man who used to be carried on the back by his wife because he was small. He was an ordinary little man who was naturally small ... When he got game, he had his wife carry it, for being small he never left her... Although he was very small he used to get the most game because being so very small he could hide easily. He used to be able to get very close to the animals while they were hunting caribou on foot in the summer.”
Story by Levi Qumaluk, as retold in Eskimo Stories - Unikkaatuat, Zebedee Nungak & Eugene Arima, National Museums of Canada, Bulletin No. 235, Series No, 90, 1969, pg. 95