Antler Ulu Earrings

Beautiful and delicate, these earrings are carved from caribou antler into the shape of uluit. An ulu is a tool traditionally used by Inuit women as an all-purpose knife. It is utilized in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child's hair, cutting food and, if necessary, trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build igloos.

Caribou antler
Approx. 7 x 2 cm
Registration no. 251-5278

Born in 1943, Martha Noah is an Inuk artist from the Qamani'tuaq (Baker Lake), Nunavut. She has participated in the printing program in Baker Lake since it first started in 1970. Jessie Oonark, the well-known printmaker, was Martha’s mother-in-law. Today, Noah concentrates on making carvings out of antler in her studio at the Jessie Oonark Centre in Baker Lake, using high technology saws and materials. 

Martha Noah has been in many important exhibitions on Inuit art since 1972, including: Baker Lake Print Retrospective: A Twenty Year Anniversary in 1989; The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1980; Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical Symbolism in Eskimo Art from 1976 to 1982. Her work is in many important public and private collections across Canada including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa ON), and the Canadian Museum of Civilization (Gatineau QC).