Fig. 1 Egg Collector, ca. 2007 Whalebone, baleen, walrus tusk, plastic line, H22 x B11 x D9cmIdris Moss-Davies, Qikiqtarjuaq (Broughton Island), Nunavut, Canada April is over. It has been the coldest April for many years as well. But May is not yet a happy month...
Map of Eastern Siberia, Uelen is shown at the Northeast tip. Detail of an engraved walrus tusk, Uelen, 1998 L48cm by Natalja Gonom. At the most easterly point of Siberia, just across the Bering Strait from Alaska, lies the village of Uelen in the Chukotka Autonomous...
Hand with Contract, 2002, Serpentine, H20 x W22 x D9 cmOviloo Tunnillie, Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada, (Photo: Severin Nowacki) From the beginning, the now Museum Cerny has seen itself as a platform for the inhabitants and concerns of the Arctic, not as their mouthpiece....
The new marble carvings greet visitors at “Qaumajuk”, WAG’s Inuit Art Centre. The Tuniigusiia sculpture is meant to represent how knowledge is passed on through education and storytelling, and the important role teachers play in the Inuit...
Creature on the Ice Edge, 2006, Brazilian soapstone, alabaster, H25 x W48 x L22cmDavid Ruben Piqtoukun, Paulatuk, Northwest Territories, Canada. (Image: Severin Nowacki) The beginnings of Museum Cerny’s collection date back to a collection of artworks by the Inuit,...
