Birds

A stunning sculpture of a pair of birds, carved from on piece of stone.

Stone
Approx. 7.5 x 16 x 15 cm
Registration no. 1261287

Pavinak Petaulassie (1961-2019) was a sculptor from Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU. Petaulassie first learned to carve from local sculptors and his father in the 1970s. Petaulassie’s father, the late Aggeak Petaulassie (1983), was also a carver.

Petaulassie most often depicts northern wildlife but has carved human figures such as hunters, mothers, children and a person holding a handstand. Petaulassie primarily carves in serpentine, favouring stone in laurel to dark green hues. Petaulassie’s work is frequently identifiable by his carving technique of linking multiple individuals together from a single piece of stone.