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Hunter preparing a seal

Hunter preparing a seal

by Daniel Inukpuk
$1,200.00 - $1,200.00
$1,200.00
$1,200.00 - $1,200.00
$1,200.00

A figure kneels in this stone carving of Inuit life by Daniel Inukpuk.

Stone
23 x 13 x 25 cm
Registration no. C5-103150 

Daniel Inukpuk, son of Johnny Inukpuk, was born in 1942, in Sarollie Weetaluktuk's camp near Inukjuak. He started carving around 1960. His sculpture was first exhibited in a show organized by the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1967.

In the early 1970s, Inukpuk contributed to several Nunavik print collections, having learned printmaking from Thomassie and Lucassie Echalook. Inukpuk split his time evenly between printmaking and carving until the Inukjuak print shop closed around 1976.

His work is of dark local stone, serpentinite, which he says is beginning to be more difficult to quarry. Carving animals and figures, many of Daniel’s figurative sculptures portray the love between mother and child, or families at play.